Carry out an acessible content audit of the website

[owenatgov]

What

Audit our guidance content, looking for the following:

• Poor or inconsistent link text
• Abbreviations

...make decisions on if these things need fixing or adjusting and action them.

Accessible content audit worksheet

Why

This is to tackle the 3 remaining content issues raised by the 2024 audit of the GOV.UK Design System website:

• Links on website missing context #4023
• Non-descriptive links on the website #4013
• Unexplained abbreviations on website #4010

This is also a follow on from https://github.com/alphagov/design-system-team-internal/issues/919 to actually carry out the audit, record our findings and make any necessary changes.

Who needs to work on this

Content designer

Who needs to review this

Content designer, audit squad

Done when

• All links collected
• All abbreviations collected
• Decisions made on collected data about what needs actioning, if anything
• Issues fixed

[owenatgov]

I'm closing this issue and splitting it into 2 other issues so that the wider audit work is easier to manage:

1. Audit and fix our link text for screen reader users #4267
2. Figure out how to explain acronyms on the website #4268