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@accessibleweb.bsky.social

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Christian, Head of Accessiblity and Digital Inclusion at Government Digital Service, part of Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. Terrible puns. Music wot I wrote at https://soundcloud.com/user-480796149

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Richard Morton @accessibleweb.bsky.social · Jun 17

I don't have statistics more recent than this, but I suspect the situation is still similar now, and it can probably safely be extrapolated meaning that thousands of the 7000+ government services aren't digital accessible to the minimum required standards.

#accessibility #AccessibilityRegulations

Richard Morton @accessibleweb.bsky.social · Apr 23

Twenty four of the ‘Top 75’ government services failed to meet basic accessibility standards in Q1 2024.

From www.gov.uk/government/p...

#Accessibility #a11y #AccessibilityRegulations

State of digital government review

www.gov.uk

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fbrady @fbrady.bsky.social · 1d

for those eligible to work in the UK

Richard Morton @accessibleweb.bsky.social · 1d

I am recruiting a Senior Accessibility Specialist to be part of the Government Digital Service accessibility and digital inclusion team. Applications open until Sunday 26th October. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...

#a11y #Accessibility #AccessibilityRegulations

Quick Check Needed

www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk

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Richard Morton @accessibleweb.bsky.social · 7h

2-s complement, 3-s a crowd (modernish take on an old saying)

Richard Morton @accessibleweb.bsky.social · 1d

Quick Check Needed

www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk

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Richard Morton @accessibleweb.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not far off that now.

Richard Morton @accessibleweb.bsky.social · 2d

Fixed desks and internalised ableism helenjeffries.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/f...

#accessibility

Fixed desk – hot button

One of my most important reasonable adjustments for autism is having a fixed desk. Like most workplaces, mine operates a hot-desking policy and colleagues have to book in advance where they will si…

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Richard Morton @accessibleweb.bsky.social · 2d

I assumed that was ages. Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m 64.

Richard Morton @accessibleweb.bsky.social · 8d

Of course the baby in that version would now be about 75 years old.

Richard Morton @accessibleweb.bsky.social · 8d

Haven’t seen it but the Steve Martin remake was good. See also Father of the Bride which had two versions with Steve Martin in the 2nd.

Richard Morton @accessibleweb.bsky.social · 8d

Might be someone called Urian who happens to be epic.

Richard Morton @accessibleweb.bsky.social · 8d

Bonzairo carbon perhaps?

Richard Morton @accessibleweb.bsky.social · 9d

Something like this:

Very close view of three black and two white piano keys.

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Richard Morton @accessibleweb.bsky.social · 9d

Strikingly beautiful. Seeing the image in my peripheral vision while reading the text made me think of a close up of piano keys.

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Richard Morton @accessibleweb.bsky.social · 10d

What’s your sign?

Black shoes in a shop window with a sign saying “Men’s shoes 2 for £50”

Richard Morton @accessibleweb.bsky.social · 10d

Can’t see it on Bluesky.

Richard Morton @accessibleweb.bsky.social · 12d

Is that an AI hallucination? The lyric is actually "Daisy, Daisy, give me you answer do" - I guess there may be different variants of the song.

Richard Morton @accessibleweb.bsky.social · 15d

It may be just a matter of time with empathy, given that the use of AI (rightly or wrongly) in caring, counselling and therapy scenarios will likely expand.

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 17d

Are you free next Sunday? Do you live in Oxford? I'm running a noticing workshop at Caper Books for children ages 5 to 9. We'll be finding joyous, tiny stories in ordinary things to help with overwhelm and discover magic in the everyday! And tickets are only £3! To book: tinyurl.com/4tutvvfm #oxford

An orange background with the cover of my book The Place I'm in and my photo and this information: Noticing Noticing workshop for ages 5 - 9 with Miranda Keeling at Caper Books in Oxford! Sept 28th 11:30am Caper Books 74-77 Magdalen Road, Oxford, OX4 1RE

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Richard Morton @accessibleweb.bsky.social · 15d

If you want to confuse a digital interaction designer today remind them that radio buttons in cars were mostly rectangular www.globalnerdy.com/wp-content/u...

Car radio with rectangular buttons for selecting stations and a frequency display and two circular knobs.

Richard Morton @accessibleweb.bsky.social · 15d

@lubes.bsky.social great handle. Anything that links music with computing in a punlike way appeals to me.

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Richard Morton @accessibleweb.bsky.social · 15d

Overheard in a coffee shop, someone asking for 1.5 shots instead of the usual 2 or 1. Feels like sitting on the fence to me, and I didn’t see what they did with the spare 0.5 shot.

Richard Morton @accessibleweb.bsky.social · 16d

Tired looking tires (or tyres as we call them where I am from).

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carljungfranz.bsky.social @carljungfranz.bsky.social · 18d

The Heimtückegesetz is a 1934 Nazi German law

that punished "treacherous attacks"

on the state and party,

restricting free speech

and enforcing penalties for any remarks

damaging the prestige of the Third Reich,

the Nazi government,

or the Nazi Party.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_...

Law of Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

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Richard Morton @accessibleweb.bsky.social · 18d

One example I did was to use the data from a live government petition and show the breakdown of numbers starting with my own constituency (the data is already broken down just not displayed from the main petitions website. 31steps.co.uk

UK Parliament Petition: 727356

31steps.co.uk

Richard Morton @accessibleweb.bsky.social · 18d

I’ve found it good for creating quick prototypes. Not worried about losing skills as I was never really a programmer / coder, developer, always just tinkering. I would rather use AI for code than to replace my writing or comprehension skills.

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Richard Morton @accessibleweb.bsky.social · 18d

Mum was cool.