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In this 90-minute workshop, the GOV.UK Design System team demonstrates how they test components and patterns for accessibility. The workshop uses the upcoming task-list component as an example.

This session contains some of the most important lessons learned on my journey to efficiency on GovCMS. Come to the session to learn from my previous mistakes and hopefully your GovCMS development will become more joyful and productive. Feel free to bring your own lessons learned, so we all benefit!

This session is a more focused deep dive on specific aspects of DXP and content that are most compelling to a whole of government implementation on GovCMS.

The theme for Design System Day 2022 was ‘Inclusivity by Design’, and one key area of inclusivity is accessibility. To help us explore the intersection between accessibility and design systems, we assembled a panel of professionals who have a connection to both accessibility work and design systems. Our panellists come from a varied set of UK civil service, broader public sector and private sector organisations.

The internet provides access to knowledge for billions across the world, but how accessible is it really? Website accessibility advocate Clive Loseby sheds light on why many parts of the web are closed off to those with disabilities -- and lays out some steps to make being online better for everyone.

The presentation will cover the latest developments in GovCMS9 and detail the roadmap for migrations.

Julia Topliss, former Account Manager at Morpht, presents on work on the new IPEA website.

The last few years have been busy for GovCMS. We delivered large amounts of Covid content to Australians; feeling the weight of responsibility to not make any mistakes and watched over enormous spikes in traffic that did not fall away as the pandemic ebbed and flowed. The reality of that workload and pressure meant we had to delay most of our optional work.

This session looks at how GovCMS handles test automation using Cypress as part of our continuous improvement and deployment for SaaS sites on the platform, the benefits it provides for front end testing and our goal for more automated testing.

Accessibility is important to all – not everyone using your mobile app, device or wearable will be fully functioning: either because they have a disability or they are simply engaged elsewhere. Gian Wild talks about the things that are essential to avoid when designing mobile apps, devices and wearables to ensure that everyone can use them.