Clear thinking on inclusive web design
Sign-in and password flows remain a neglected weak point in UK accessibility work, from council portals to retail accounts. WCAG 2.2 raises the standard, but passkeys and authentication design need careful handling if they are to include rather than exclude.
Many UK council homepages pass automated checks yet fall apart when a low-vision resident zooms to 400%. This practical guide explains the reflow test in plain English and sets out a repeatable audit routine for web teams.
PDFs remain a stubborn accessibility gap in councils, NHS trusts, and government agencies. This guide explains the common failure modes, the hidden cost of retrospective remediation, and a practical route to HTML-first publishing.
Accessibility overlays promise quick compliance, but UK organisations need to ask what such tools actually detect, what they hide, and who carries the risk when barriers remain. The Equality Act 2010 is not satisfied by a floating toolbar.
Accessibility statements are compulsory, public and read almost exclusively by people who have just hit a barrier. This guide sets out what the 2018 regulations genuinely ask for, examines the omissions that make statements useless, and offers a working structure any UK organisation can adopt in an afternoon.
For five working days I ran my life through the tab key: banking, council tax, train tickets, the weekly shop. What I found was not a catalogue of exotic failures but a handful of ordinary ones, repeated everywhere — and cheap to fix.
Most UK web teams still assess accessibility through visual QA and automated scans, then wonder why screen reader users struggle. This opinion piece examines the gap between sighted assumptions and assistive technology use, and sets out a practical, low-cost route to testing with blind and low-vision people.
Small UK charity digital teams cannot fix everything at once. This plain-English guide sets out twelve WCAG 2.2 AA checks that make a real difference to disabled visitors, plus three time-consuming activities that are often overrated.