Back in late 2023 I reviewed the number of councils using accessibility overlays (also known as accessibility or assistive toolbars). At that time I was aware that concerns have been raised about this technology, so I decided to find out which councils are using them and try to explore a little about why they choose […]
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This blog post considers how well council websites in the UK and Ireland are meeting legal requirements to review their accessibility statements. How many councils have an Accessibility Statement? The majority of councils in the UK and Ireland (398 – 97.1%) publish an accessibility statement on their main websites. 12 councils (2.9%) currently don’t publish […]
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This article follows up on one written back in January 2024 called ‘Why custom 404 error pages are important for council websites‘. In the previous article I used the combined wisdom from GOV.UK and Google on custom 404s. From their advice I identified ten points which help to make up an effective 404 for people […]
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