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The Readability Group

A guide to understanding what makes a typeface accessible

And how to make more informed design decisions.

10 min readAug 14, 2020

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BBC Reith Basic Character Set

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UX Collective

Accessibility data is not the enemy

The following blog post has recently done the rounds and it is yet another article about accessibility that doesn’t quite add-up, and is…

11 min readJan 14, 2022

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The graphic trace of a heartbeat with a heart shape in it and the word ‘A11y’ inside the heart

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UX Collective

The DoctorA guide to the visual language of closed captions and subtitles

If you have ever watched a film or TV programme, or gone to an opera or theatre production with either captions (subtitles in the UK) for…

10 min readNov 2, 2021

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The Doctor asks her phone, Tell me about the Visual Language of Closed Captions and Subtitles

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UX Collective

A 10-step approach to inclusive branding, using the BBC as an example

A few days ago the BBC announced and presented it’s new branding system, and with tired predictability there was a backlash from anyone…

14 min readOct 24, 2021

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BBC Accessible Branding

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Gareth Ford Williams

Digital Accessibility at the BBC, How it all Began

Back in the spring of 2005 I was not an Accessibility Specialist, I was managing a team that produced TV trails. I then had a chance…

8 min readOct 6, 2021

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BBC iPlayer homepage in 2007

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Level Up Coding

Why Accessibility Policies Are Important, And What Can Be Learned From The BBC.

This article is not just an explanation of the BBC’s policies and wider regulatory framework for accessibility, but it is also intended to…

11 min readSep 19, 2021

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Why Accessibility Policies Are Important, And What Can Be Learned From The BBC.

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UX Collective

Why can inequalities appear in digital accessibility?

The world is full of questionable design outcomes due to unconscious biases, political agendas or a lack of empathy, and working as a…

19 min readSep 18, 2021

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A montage of images from YouView, Red Button and World Service with the hashtag #£a11y

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Level Up Coding

How To Start An Accessibility Champions Network, The BBC’s Story.

This is both the history and an outline of the approach of the BBC’s Accessibility Champions Network.

7 min readSep 5, 2021

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How To Start An Accessibility Champions Network, The BBC’s Story.

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UX Collective

The disability and accessibility data desert is growing bigger every day

After reading about the Paralympian, Aramitsu Kitazono, being hit by a Toyota driverless vehicle at the Tokyo Paralympics, and the lack of…

4 min readAug 29, 2021

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Accessibility Data written accross the image of a desert.

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UX Collective

UX=Accessibility & Accessibility=UX

Following on from my article on Legal Experience Design, I began wondering what Accessibility would look like as a framework if it was UX…

22 min readAug 16, 2021

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UX=Accessibility & Accessibility=UX

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Gareth Ford Williams

Gareth Ford Williams

Director at Ab11y.com and The Readability Group. I am an Ex-Head of UX Design and Accessibility at the BBC and I have ADHD and I’m Dyslexic.

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