As the UK’s universal service provider, delivering a six-days-a-week, one-price-goes-anywhere postal service to more than 29 million addresses across the UK, Royal Mail wanted to make digital accessibility a key priority.
Focusing on high-quality user experience, we have helped Royal Mail:
- Meet all accessibility requirements while it transitioned successfully from a Government body to an IPO
- Support internal teams to maintain and evolve its digital vision in a changing market landscape
- Review existing digital functionality and content, as well as assess all new projects across the entire ecosystem
- Deliver over 70 projects in line with accessibility guidelines
- Put accessibility at the forefront of the organisation, continuously advising on design and development cycles
As its long-term strategic accessibility partner, we have been instrumental in helping Royal Mail work towards its organisational goal of achieving WCAG 2.0 Level AA. Together we have developed a formal digital accessibility policy and set of guidelines that can be used internally and with external stakeholders, to embed best practice within the digital design and development lifecycle
Understanding Royal Mail’s digital estate
Our first task was to take the Royal Mail’s existing development lifecycle and identify when, where and why it would use UX practices and accessibility checkpoints.
We held a workshop with senior digital stakeholders to identify all the strands within their digital vision; this included the creation of a set of best practice guidelines, the requirements of the internal digital toolkits and UX policy. The policy was created to extend to all external organisations and encourage a unified and practical approach to any future interaction with UX and accessibility.
The set of documents we created assist both the internal digital managers and third party partners to make sure accessibility is promoted at all stages of digital design and development projects.
Nurturing accessibility with ongoing support
Our team continues to work with the Royal Mail to help nurture accessibility across the organisation and support the internal team to take a more user-led approach.
Our support includes developing solid foundations through accessibility reviews, strategy development and testing. We also provide consultancy and training to support the team as required. We work closely with both Royal Mail and its third party suppliers to continually help improve accessibility and usability for all.
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