Comment on Germany has just made the standard Open Document Format (ODF) mandatory
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 week agoThe UK seemingly got some cool nerds in the government: the gov.uk sites were regarded as the golden standard of design and accessibility in the 2010s, idk about currently. Commercial designers straight up studied gov.uk’s design guidelines to see how a job like that should be done.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
Yeah, I knew that, it’s super cool, and it came to mind as I was writing my earlier comment.
What’s neat about the website stuff is that even if it’s not as good now (idk, I haven’t looked), that value they created is still there in the older case study — there were so many good resources. I was the disability rep in a few student societies, as well as in a few volunteer orgs after uni, and we referenced the guidelines a few times. Good resources like that are especially useful in those contexts — because they helped turn “that would be nice, but we don’t have the resources to implement accessibility in our materials” into “okay, let’s put our money where our mouth is and do our best to make something as accessible as we can”