Digital Accessibility Intern
If you are interested in helping users and people, we have an interesting summer internship for you which is about checking our services to make sure they are as accessible as they can be for all our users.
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Revisiting alt text for January’s Content Improvement Club
Content Improvement Club is our regular meetup for web publishers. In January, we ran two sessions focused on writing alt text and making images accessible. Last March, we ran a session outlining why alt text matters and key principles behind writing it well. This post builds on that session, so we recommend reading our previous […]
Read moreDrupal Camp Scotland 2025: A Day of Connections
Back in November (yes, I know — this post is fashionably late), I attended Drupal Camp Scotland on 7th November 2025. It was a full day of interesting, insightful and genuinely useful talks. From the moment I arrived, greeted by friendly faces over morning coffee – there was a strong sense of community. As my […]
Read moreHow can people trust AI-generated content? Designing provenance data into our prototype AI searchbot
As AI-generated content becomes increasingly prevalent, questions of trust emerge, prompting a growing need for transparency about the creation of digital content. As part of an academic study, I designed and prototyped ways to display provenance data for synthetic content made by an AI searchbot on a University website. Working in UX, I’m always eager […]
Read moreGet Involved with Open Education Week
The #openscot blog has been dark for a while. Not because there are not a lot of initiatives happening across Scotland. Open Education Week presents a great opportunity for institutions and practitioners across Scotland to shine a light on our open practice. Perhaps an opportunity for you and or your organisation to learn about open […]
Read moreEdinburgh Innovations Case Study: Redesigning the Inventions and Intellectual Property Pages
Hello! I am Dono, a fourth-year Government, Policy, and Society student. In my role as Green Digital Design Intern on the UX team, I work on projects that integrate user-centred design and sustainable digital practices, with the goal of helping the University meet its net-zero targets by 2040. In November, I took over from the […]
Read moreResources we’re using to support our work on the editorial style guide
In this post, Digital Content Style Guide Intern Hannah Watson examines the research and existing guidance that have supported our work on the University’s style guide. The UX team have recently been working to refresh the University’s editorial style guide. As part of my internship, I have been doing research to assist with this project. […]
Read moreTwo upcoming Edinburgh data-related conferences
As we all settle into the new year, it is good to start filling the calendar with events that provide …Continue reading →
Read moreHappy 25th birthday Wikipedia!
Happy Birthday Wikipedia! Read more about Wikipedia’s 25 year history, covering its early days with a ‘then and now'(and what lies ahead), at the link below: https://wikipedia25.org/en At 25 years old it may be the olddddd man of the old Internet but Wikipedia still remains the largest reference work on the Internet and is now a […]
Read moreData Management for Bioimaging – No-Cost, Easy-Access Tools for Edinburgh
This is a guest blog from Dr Ann Wheeler, Head of the Institute of Genetics and Cancer Advanced Imaging Resource …Continue reading →
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