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July is Disability Pride Month: a month to celebrate people with disabilities, their identities, culture, and contributions to society. It’s also a chance to think about the barriers faced by people with disabilities. The social model of disability describes how people are disabled by barriers in society, not by their impairment or difference. Barriers can be physical, like gaps between stations and trains, or on the web they can be digital. Having an accessible website should be a key consideration in how you present your business or organisation online. The principles of digital accessibility are that your website should be perceivable, operable, understandable and robust. Perceivable - Is your website content structured in a logical order? - Can it be read by a screen reader? - Is there sufficient colour contrast, and are you using text as well as colour to explain or distinguish things? Operable - Can keyboard-only users access all areas of your website? - Is it clear to those users what item in your website they are currently focused on? - Can any moving content or blinking animations be paused or disabled? Understandable - Are any technical acronyms and abbreviations explained? - Are there any complicated words and phrases that need further clarification? Robust  - Does your website use valid HTML so that assistive technology can accurately interpret your content? - Are all user interface components (e.g. accordions, tab panels) suitably identified and labelled for assistive technology? - Are people alerted to the current state of such components, and if that state changes? Do you think your website meets these principles of accessibility? Get in touch to find out more about bringing down the digital barriers on your website. Let’s build a better web, together. #Accessibility #WebsiteDesign #WCAG #Inclusion #DisabilityPrideMonth

This week we had our 16th Studio Day. Studio Day is a chance for the whole team to get together and catch up. Normally we have workshops and talk about digital matters. This time we put all the screens away and focussed on joyful creativity. It was lovely to spend time with our new Project Manager James Palferman. And we looked back on the last seven years of working with the wonderful Francesco Fabbro who's heading off for pastures new at the end of July. You can read more about the day in our blog post. https://lnkd.in/equM-J4Q #Team #Creativity #AgencyLife #Culture

A study from Kings College London finds the number of girls in England taking computing at GCSE has plummeted, prompting warnings of the dominance of men in shaping the modern world. Computer Science GCSE, which includes computer theory, coding and programming, is seen as difficult and seems to deter girls. In this blog post, our PHP Developer Zuzana Kunckova talks about how there is a space for everyone to get involved in coding. She talks about her journey to becoming a website developer and the community she founded to support women developers working with PHP and Laravel. https://lnkd.in/g5UVmstx Details of the study are in this Guardian article: https://lnkd.in/enbNA6Xz #ComputerScience #Coding #Careers #Digital #WebsiteDesign

Zuzana Kunckova, Gareth Trinkwon, and Simon Jones had a great time at Laravel Live this week. There were talks, networking and learning opportunities, with Zuzana delivering a talk called 'Fun with (PHP) Functions'. It was lovely to reconnect with our old colleague Maria Catalina Beznea. P.S. for the non-techies, Laravel is a framework we use to build custom applications! #WebsiteDesign #WebsiteDevelopment #Laravel #PHP

Does your website use the Content Management System (CMS) Drupal 7? If so, you are probably aware that Drupal 7 is coming to the end of its life. What are the options for your website? Read more in our blog post. https://lnkd.in/eVS5cnP2 #ContentManagementSystem #WebsiteDevelopment #WebsiteDesign

Earlier this week Simon Jones gave a talk for Cambridge Wide Open Day about making your digital products and services, including websites, accessible. In our blog post, you can view the slides from the talk and find links to some resources that help you test for accessibility and write accessible content. https://lnkd.in/eimzKEyW #Accessibility #WebsiteDesign #Inclusion #Equity

Recently we worked with His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) to migrate their website to a new hosting environment. Key goals for the project: - no disruption of service or downtime for the website visitors - the migrated site must look and work identically - support the HMICFRS team to add new content to their website while the migration takes place Our Head of Delivery Claire McDermott said "For this project, it seems appropriate to use the swan analogy – all you see is the beautiful swan gliding along the water serenely when all the power and drive are happening under the surface" If you'd like insight into how a big migration project works, we explain all in our case study: https://lnkd.in/eacwnUdA #Hosting #Migration #WebsiteDesign #WebsiteDevelopment

Simon Jones delivered his talk for Cambridge Wide Open Day to a small but appreciative audience! We discussed how people want to use the web and what barriers they might face as well as accessibility laws, how to assess your website, and how to write accessible content. We will post the talk to our blog in the next couple of days with links to all the resources. Lovely to chat today with Tim Hill, Shauna Kelly, Vicky Baddeley (she/her), Anusha Iyer, Seun A Ilenda and Lewis Herbert. #Accessibility #WebsiteDesign #Inclusion

Tomorrow is Cambridge Wide Open Day and the tenants at Allia in The Guildhall have talks and an exhibition from 11am–2pm where you can find out more about the work we do. We will be giving a talk at at 11.30am in the courtroom on website accessibility. Simon Jones will explain what the law is, why is accessibility important and give lots of tips to help you make improvements to your own website straight away. This will be followed at 12.30pm with Franck Courbon from Ethicronics talking about electronics at scale. And then 1.30pm with Lewis Herbert from Allia Future Homes talking about the homelessness crisis in Cambridge and supported modular home communities. It's free to attend and a great insight into some of the work happening in our brilliant city. See you there! #Accessibility #WebsiteDesign

We wrote a blog post about election campaigning and how politicians exclude people when they don't make their social media posts accessible. https://lnkd.in/eyaE_KWa But what if you aren't online at all? This is a great article from Elizabeth Anderson about digital poverty and the election. https://lnkd.in/gpGDFuvH Digital is key to the election, but much work is needed to make it an equitable experience. #Accessibility #DigitalPoverty #Inclusion #GeneralElection