Edinburgh Public Sector Digital Meetup - Accessibility & Inclusion

We're meeting up in-person at Longmore House for an afternoon of talks and discussion about digital accessibility and inclusion.

Our speakers will be Stéphanie Krus and Gayle Whittaker.

Spaces are limited (35 spaces) – to mitigate last minute cancellations, we would ask that you book your place if you can definitely attend. This is an in-person event only. This event is open to public sector employees. Please sign up with your work email address.

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Stéphanie is a service designer for the National Care Service (Scottish Government).

She has a background in teaching and computing initially and never really studied service design as such, but has learned ‘by doing’ in previous roles in the public sector.

She enjoys attending various events about design or accessibility to learn from others and is one of the four organisers of the UX Glasgow meet-up.

You can find resources around accessibility and inclusion on her blog or learn more about projects she was involved in like the ‘Practitioner Stories’ with Angela F. Orviz, Serena Nüsing and Vinishree Verma which is a self initiated research project aiming to collect stories on how to better support, grow and build up the service design community in Scotland.

This session will:

• help you get a better understanding of what digital inclusion is
• explain the differences between accessibility, assisted digital support and inclusion
• introduce the concept of universal barriers
• give some advice on how to be more inclusive while designing your service and delivering it
• provide extra resources to explore this further

Stéphanie will be presenting remotely.

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Gayle is a Senior Accessibility Researcher in the Digital Accessibility and Usability Team at the Scottish Government. She has over 15 years’ experience and a passion for delivering useful, usable and accessible experiences for everyone.

The team have recently created an Accessibility Champions Network that has 100 people representing different directorates across the organisation.

Gayle will be talking about why the champions are so important and how the network is a crucial element to the success of the Scottish Government mission and values.

"Creating a digital accessible culture through a Champions Network" - the session will cover:

• Building awareness of digital accessibility
• Objectives of the network
• Setting up and running the network
• Champions mission
• The future of the network

You will have plenty of time to ask you questions at the end of each talk as well as time for networking and coffee before/after the talks.

This event is being organised by Christina Gilfedder from Historic Environment Scotland, and Anusree Raju & Jono Ellis from Scottish Government.

Host or Publisher Jonathan Ellis