During my time on the GOV.UK Design System team, I developed a workshop in collaboration with Imran Hussain.
Watch a recording of the manual accessibility testing workshop on YouTube.
The idea was twofold:
- We wanted to help demonstrate how teams across the UK public sector can test and assess the accessibility of components they contribute to the GOV.UK Design System
- We wanted to test the accessibility of the community-built update for the task list component
With the support and advice of Frankie Roberto and the task list working group community, Imran and I developed the workshop, and scheduled it for March 2023.
The workshop was 90 minutes long and consisted of 5 segments:
- Info about the task list component and it working group
- Learning about manual accessibility testing methods
- Demonstrations of manual accessibility tests
- Info on available assistive technologies and reporting tools
- Questions and feedback
We ended up selling out the first event, and decided to run a second session 1 week later to meet demand. In total there were 500 attendees across the two sessions.