Last month, Accessibility Manchester ran a series of inclusion and accessibility talks. The line-up of speakers mainly came from Co-op Digital and you can read a summary here. We pre-recorded the talks, added captions, then showed them across 3 lunch-time sessions. We collected questions from attendees so we could give written (accessible) answers afterwards. Here…
We ran a series of inclusion and accessibility talks this week. They took place over 3 lunch breaks and they fell nicely into these themes: Being inclusive at Co-op Enabling accessibility in teams Getting accessibility ‘done‘ This post summarises what the speakers covered. We pre-recorded the talks and added captions afterwards which meant that we didn’t give live…
We’ve been running inhouse training with small groups to help place accessibility at the centre of all Co-op products and services. We believe that this is everyone’s responsibility and the more Co-op colleagues who are aware of the barriers that…
We want as many people as possible to be able to use Co-op products and services. Aside from it being good business sense, we know that being inclusive with our design is the right thing to do. We’ve posted before…
We’ve been working hard to improve accessibility across Co-op products and services and as our Head of Digital Products, Adam, has said, “having accessible services shouldn’t be a question for Co-op, it’s what we should and must do.” Last month…
Co-op Digital has been looking at our understanding and awareness of accessibility. What does accessibility mean to us? Are we good at it? Are we doing enough to embed it into our working practices throughout a project? Do we even know what accessibility means in ‘human’ terms? We identified 3 problems we need…
Before we became part of the Co-op Content Design community, Marianne worked in marketing and communications, and Mary was a copywriter. Like most content designers and content strategists at Co-op, we moved into this discipline from roles that also demanded…
Over 18 months ago, we wrote about how we planned to commit to designing more responsibly at Co-op. Since that point we’ve established a small group of informal ‘sustainability champions’ including Alistair, Marianne, Rachel, Jack and Preetha. This group have…
Co-op Insurance talked about usability testing with people who are visually impaired last week on the Digital blog. Improving and influencing better accessibility where we can is important. This post describes how we prepared for the sessions. We hope it encourages more…
This is a guest post about Co-op Insurance and their website, co-opinsurance.co.uk. The author is Paul Braddock, a user experience designer who works on it. In the summer, we blogged about how and why we asked AbilityNet to carry out…
