Thursday 13 March 2014, 10:41
Henny Swan
Senior Accessibility Specialist
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Hi,
I work in the Accessibility team in BBC Future Media. We provide tools, training, and support to teams within the BBC so that they can deliver web content and applications that are accessible to disabled audiences.
Earlier this week a public preview of the new BBC iPlayer on the web was released. This new site replaces separate mobile, tablet and desktop sites with one responsive site. In streamlining the user experience for all users we wanted to also exceed existing levels of accessibility with the current BBC iPlayer and, more importantly, make the site more usable for disabled users. To do this we embedded accessibility into the design and development process from the outset. This post talks through some of the headlines of how we went about doing this.
