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Kerry Lyons

How we’re providing real-time accessibility statements and issue management

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In late 2023, the Department for Education (DfE) DesignOps team noticed a recurring problem across the services DfE provided to users. Many of our digital services did not have accessibility statements, or had out-of-date, or incorrect statements. This issue made …

Introducing the DfE Plain Language standard 

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In digital, data, and technology in DfE, we’ve published a Plain Language standard.  The Plain Language standard ensures that users can:  The standard incorporates our ways of working and best practise for user-centred design in government. It should not create …

Making the service assessment process easier and more consistent

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For the last 18 months, we’ve been investigating and implementing initiatives for how we check and improve our digital services against standards, specifically, the Government Service Standard. Our research findings show that the way we assess these services in DfE …

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