Update the website to comply with WCAG 2.2 AA

[dav-idc]

What

Timeline: June 2023 to September 2023 Priority level: 1 – what we must do legally Category: Design system fundamentals

Potential tasks

• Audit the GOV.UK Design System website to check for WCAG 2.2 AA compliance
• Review the audit results and prioritise work as needed
• Implement changes to bring the website into compliance with WCAG 2.2 AA

Epic lead

Not yet assigned

Why

WCAG 2.2 is set to be published in 2023. As such, we hope to bring the GOV.UK Design System website in line with WCAG 2.2 criteria within 9 months of the publish date.

Who needs to work on this

Everyone: developers, interaction designers, user researcher, accessibility specialist, content designers, product manager.

Who needs to review this

Just the internal team.

Done when

• [x] Audit the GOV.UK Design System website to check for WCAG 2.2 AA compliance
• [x] Review the audit results and prioritise work as needed
• [ ] Implement changes to bring the website into compliance with WCAG 2.2 AA
• [ ] Publish the new version of the website

[owenatgov]

This has been accidentally superceded by https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-design-system/issues/3967 and https://github.com/alphagov/design-system-team-internal/issues/912 (internal repo, only visible to the team).

As those other briefs are the more active issues, I'm closing this one. We're still going to make changes and publish them as noted in the unticked tasks on this issue via the linked issues in this comment.