Inside GOV.UK

Making the GOV.UK feedback component more accessible

Jon Kirwan, Frontend developer at GOV.UK, Government Digital Service (GDS), 28 March 2022 - Accessibility, What we're working on

Here’s how we improved the feedback component on GOV.UK by making it more accessible and more resilient.

Replacing the scroll tracker on GOV.UK

Andy Sellick, Senior frontend developer, GOV.UK, 17 March 2022 - How we work, What we're working on

We explain what scroll tracking is, why the original scroll tracker wasn't fit for purpose, why we built a new one, and some of the complexities involved.

Incident report: increased error rate on GOV.UK on 5 January 2022

GOV.UK support team, 25 February 2022 - Incident reports

On 5 January 2022, some GOV.UK users saw errors when accessing the site. Here’s what happened and how we responded.

How we improved translations on GOV.UK

Tim Motz, Product Manager, GDS, 9 February 2022 - Content, Product changes

We’ve been working to improve translations on GOV.UK to make sure they’re as accessible as possible to our millions of users in the UK and abroad. Here’s how we made technical fixes to make translations better.

The GOV.UK roadmap: what we’re working on through spring 2022

Leanne Cummings, Deputy Director for Portfolio Delivery on GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, 18 January 2022 - Vision and plans, What we're working on

The GOV.UK Team has updated its roadmap to reflect what we’ve shipped, what we’re working on and what we’re exploring up to spring 2022. Read on to find out what the team is up to.

Updating the GOV.UK homepage

Sam Dub, Product Lead on GOV.UK, GDS, Owen Jones, Frontend Developer at GDS and Mia Allers, Senior Graphic Designer at GDS, 13 December 2021 - Accessibility, Finding things, How we work, Product changes

We’ve made design changes to the GOV.UK homepage to improve its accessibility and make it a better user experience for the millions of people that visit it every week.