Luton Council Builds New LocalGov Drupal Website with Accessibility at Its Core
Luton Council is rebuilding its website using LocalGov Drupal, placing accessibility at the centre of both the technology and the publishing workflow.
The new site will replace the current Luton.gov.uk platform and is being built manually without automated content migration. This allows the Digital Services team to rewrite and restructure content to meet the Public Sector Bodies Accessibility Regulations (2018).
LocalGov Drupal is a content management system developed by more than 50 UK and Irish councils, with accessibility as a core design goal. “It is a primary goal of the project to ensure that the LocalGov Drupal modules and themes are accessible to all users,” the LGD project states.
To support this effort, Luton has adopted the new Editoria11y accessibility checker module, which flags content issues before publication. The team is also running usability tests with assistive technology users to ensure content is functional and inclusive.
Read the original post by Nova on Digital Luton: Luton LocalGov Blog.
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