Beverley Newing

Over the moon to see the Accessibility profession in the government DDaT framework! gov.uk/guidance/acces… This is the culmination of a year's work that @cfunn and I lead on, with lots of help from @accessibleweb and accessibility leads at other departments. 🎉

@pekingspring @accessibleweb It is indeed!

@accessibleweb Excellent. Is this the team that’s led by @WebDevBev?

The UK Ministry of Justice are recruiting a senior accessibility specialist: jobtrain.co.uk/justicedigital…

In our latest blog, Accessibility Lead @WebDevBev takes you through the journey of their team's growth & development over the past two years 🚀 “People don’t just choose to use our services, they’re often using them because they have to.” ⚖️ Check out the full article here 👇

🌟 The future of GOV accessibility is bright! Our Accessibility Lead, @WebDevBev, shares their thoughts on why this matters: 🌐 Accessibility is a MUST - legal, vital, and inclusive! 🚀 We're growing, but the demand's huge! ⚖️ Making justice accessible for all is our goal! ⬇️

Thoroughly loved Priyanca D'Souza's talk on intersectionality 😍 feel like it was a talk I could listen to over and over again! @a11yScotland

Really enjoying @upwithebonnet 's talk - loads of great content, but favourite idea so far is avoiding question "jump scares" - being upfront about what and when potentially challenging topics come up in a round of questions, so people can mentally prepare @a11yScotland

Really enjoyed @abbott567 's talk at @a11yScotland - loved hearing Craig set out some definitions like neudivergant vs neurodiversity, and really skillful explanation of legislation - difficult to make that engaging!

Top moment in @WebDevBev ‘s excellent talk about being an accessibility lead - sometimes you have to call people’s babies ugly. @a11yScotland #a11yscotland

Delighted to see @WebDevBev leading off @a11yScotland conference with a talk about her journey learning to lead a team of #a11y specialists and the cause in a large enterprise. Fantastic story personally and organisationally. #CivilService #GovA11y

@patlaj @SoVeryBritish Love it 😂 hope you're well! It's been ages!

Good lord. Never seen a goose warning reach level 5 before.

@Finnberrys @computermuseum Love that place! Spent a good couple of hours there last year and keep meaning to go back

@JemChanOT There was the one in Margate last year, which you may already be aware of! I think @_rubyrare was involved, who you may also already know 😂 I moved down to Margate a couple of months ago and have been keeping an eye out for interesting things going on 👀

Anyone out there using quilting in community engagement? I'd love to chat!

@abbott567 @Finnberrys We'll miss you Craig!

Today is my last day in Government. It’s been an honour to work with so many great people on so many meaningful projects. I’ll miss the people. I’ll miss the cause. But it’s my time to move on and to hand over the reigns to @Finnberrys. To everyone that’s supported me, thank you!

@kolombiken It went down at the end of November, when the Heroku free tier ended - but currently getting that sorted out! Ooh nice - keen to hear your thoughts when it's back up!

@WebDevBev No, I’ve only read the article ”Setting up an Accessibility Book Club”. The site has so far been down for me. I’ve been part of two book clubs this year with one of them disability/accessibility focused. So got excited about sharing the site. No stress though! And thanks!

@WebDevBev Hello 👋 Just wanted to know if accessibility-book-club.herokuapp.com will be up and running again soon or if it’s gone for good. Thanks!

@arhayward @TwitterA11y Very sorry to hear this. Thank you for all the work you put in to the team, and the impact it had on this platform 💜

It brings me no great pleasure to say that for all intents and purposes, @TwitterA11y is defunct. I wish it wasn't – there was so much we had planned – but here we are.

The Ministry of Justice Digital Accessibility team in full 🎉 Very excited to have such a great team, and looking forward to all the work we've got lined up for this year 💪 @RooRonks @ladymoonan @mglancy @AccessibilityC3 @Justice_Digital

@kitation Oh interesting! I have it on my driving license, but it's a motorbike one rather than a car one (don't know if that makes any difference)

@kitation @TetraLogical Sad to see you go but Tetralogical are lucky to have you!

@equalsShaun Ahhh I was looking for you to tag you! Very glad to have been working on this with you too :)