I'm Dafydd Vaughan
I’m a web developer based in London. I run my own web design agency and I'm a tech lead for GOV.UK at the Government Digital Service.
I have a masters degree in Computer Science, have over 10 years experience in web development and have a keen interest in website legal, accessibility and standards compliance.
@peterbjordan yeah, DNT is a good move & will be better when supported by all browsers. These sharing buttons make me nervous though.
That last tweet wasn't directly aimed at Twitter though. If you think Google, Facebook, AddThis + others aren't also doing it you are mad
It’s not about cookies, it’s about privacy
The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 which came into effect last year has presented UK website owners with a few challenges in moving to compliance. Those of us who work on public sector websites are no exception. We wrote about some of the ways we were working towards compliance here at [...]
Government Digital Service Blog: 19 March 2012
Local services and GOV.UK
An important design rule of GOV.UK is to hide complexity, so if we are being truly user-centric, people should not need to understand the structure of government to be able to access services. Search data tells us that when people search for government services, they often don’t distinguish between central or local government. Every week, [...]
Government Digital Service Blog: 14 February 2012
Cookies on the beta
The use of cookies on websites has become an increasingly hot topic over the past few months. A new EU law – specifically The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (PECR) – requires that websites ask for consent before setting cookies that aren’t “strictly necessary” for the operation of the website. We’ve [...]
Government Digital Service Blog: 12 January 2012