Colin Stenning - Digital Health Check

I have been maintaining maps of CMS usage in the UK and Ireland since 2021. The latest updated maps are now available and accompany the LocalGov CMS Directory. Maps shows the geographical spread of content management systems and help to visualise any usage patterns across the various countries included in this review (England, Northern Ireland, […]

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Disclosure logs provide organisations with a public record of responses to information requests made under the Freedom of Information Act and Environmental Information Regulations. There is no legal requirement to provide a disclosure log, but it is considered to be good practice by the Information Commissioner’s Office. This post reviews the limited use of disclosure […]

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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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Back in late 2023 I reviewed the number of councils using accessibility overlays (also known as accessibility or assistive toolbars). I was aware that concerns have been raised about this technology, so decided to find out which councils are using them. Two years on I carried out another review to find out if there has […]

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