Shift left, scale up: embedding and scaling accessibility in digital identity

How do you ensure accessibility and inclusion isn’t just a checkbox, but a foundational pillar of a high-traffic, critical national infrastructure? 

The Government Digital Service (GDS) is living and breathing accessibility and inclusion on digital identity, and this session will outline its approach.

In this session, you'll learn how to embed and scale accessibility. It will cover: 

• how GDS introduced policy and governance
  the research approach
• how GDS created an accessibility annotation library to improve the design to developer handover

The session will discuss how GDS implemented accessibility automation into all code repositories, and where WCAG doesn’t quite meet user needs, with real user examples.

Join the session and you’ll leave with an award-winning blueprint for embedding accessibility at scale!

Participant takeaways:

• how to move beyond basic accessibility compliance to a model that lives and breathes inclusive design principles
• how to embed accessibility into service acceptance criteria, policy and other governance channels
• how to develop learning pathways to up-skill multi-disciplinary teams so accessibility isn't the sole responsibility of a "specialist”