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alphagov / govuk-design-system

One place for service teams to find styles, components and patterns for designing government services.
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Add a pattern for an Accessibility Statement #1225

Open abbott567 opened 4 years ago

abbott567 commented 4 years ago

There is a lot of confusion around Accessibility Statements. There is a couple of templates on GOV.UK but nothing mentioned in the design system.

There is a different template for content published on GOV.UK and one for public sector websites published elsewhere.

It took me quite a bit of time to find and decipher everything I needed. It feels like at the very least the one for publishing on GOV.UK belongs in the Design System. Especially as they're a legal requirement and should be consistent.

timpaul commented 4 years ago

Related to this - a user has commented that there doesn’t appear to be any reference to including accessibility statements links within footers, and that guidance on this would be useful (including whether the link should be 'Accessibility' or 'Accessibility statement')

StephenGill commented 4 years ago

There is information on this, but it's in the Service Manual: https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/helping-people-to-use-your-service/publishing-information-about-your-services-accessibility

I think there's a similar issue with privacy notices and cookies pages.

Should we create patterns for:

... each with minimal information and a link to the relevant Service manual content - at least for now, so there's something findable in the design system?