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: …
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 …
Here at the Parliament, we’re at the heart of politics and decision making in Scotland. Two of our key aims are to encourage more people to get involved in Parliament’s activities, and to make sure that anyone who wants to …
“The parliament has a great reputation for being an organisation which promotes values of openness and transparency… it would be great if this ethos was translated and visible via the website.” (User research participant - web project) The first version …
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