We’ve just launched our content on Visit the Scottish Parliament on beta. It felt a bit strange to create this content given the current situation with Covid- 19 and nobody being able to physically come to the building. But we’d …
In October 2019, the Scottish Parliament got its first content strategy. The strategy was approved by Leadership Group (the senior management team), and adopted as a corporate strategy. The aim of the strategy is to help us deliver the best quality information for the …
Can you write a blog about the Scottish Parliament’s information centre, commonly known as SPICe, and not reference 90s Brit pop? We make no promises. SPICe stands for Scottish Parliament Information Centre. Researchers in SPICe provide independent information and briefings …
An opportunity When the pandemic hit, the Parliament building closed to the public. Without my normal activities, I was looking for ways I could help other teams. The Web Project were offering the opportunity to learn about content design and …
If you’ve looked at the Beta website in the past few weeks, you’ll see it looks different too. We now have 12 committees on the new site, with 7 more to come in the next few weeks. Each committee has: …
From 14 April, current and previous Bills for this parliamentary session (from 2016) will only be published on our new beta website: beta.parliament.scot. This is a significant milestone for the web project. Bills from previous sessions of Parliament will continue …
Understanding accessibility and why it is important? At the Scottish Parliament, all content on our Beta website must meet accessibility standards. Making an accessible website ensures it can be used by as many people as possible This includes people with: …
We’ve written about why we’ve used plain English on our new website. Here’s an overview of how we’ve made our content understandable and accessible. The main ways are by: Frontloading information This means putting the most important information and keywords …
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