Designing a more accessible flood map
To mark Global Accessibility Awareness Day today, Dan Leech (Interaction Designer) shares his experience of designing accessible maps for the check for flooding service.
Long-term flood risk: a user-centred service
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Greg Knight, Content Designer, Posted on:
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Defra content design, Defra services
To mark Services Week – a focus on the government’s digital activity – we look at the relaunch of the long term flood risk service, designed around the needs of the people who actually use it.
Flood warning finds its voice
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Ben Smedley, External Digital Services, Incident Management and Resilience, Posted on:
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Defra digital
The Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales are responsible for providing flood warning information to people at risk of flooding in England and Wales. One of the main ways we do this is by sending free automated voice calls. We’ve recently improved this part of the service by switching to Amazon Polly.
First authority in UK to partner with Google Public Alerts
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Frazer Rhodes, Flood Information Service Owner, Environment Agency, Posted on:
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Defra digital
Over the past year the Environment Agency’s Flood Information Service has been working with Google and their Google Public Alerts system, to create an enhanced flood information platform. We can now proudly say that we are the first UK authority to push flood warnings through Google’s online notification platform.
Flood Digital Dragons: Going from the Pitch to Prototype
We had some super pitches to us as ‘Digital Dragons’ in the ‘Pitch to Prototype’ session (at the Flood and Coast 2019 event). So what next?
Nominated to be a Flood and Coast 2019 ‘Digital Dragon’: there’s an honour
I’m looking forward to being with dragons - no sadly nothing to do with Game of Thrones - but instead, taking part in the Flood and Coast 2019 ‘Digital Dragons' competition. Something of an honour and a privilege I have to say.
Let’s get digital: a new look for flood and coast conference
With this year’s Flood and Coast 2019 Conference getting ever closer to its go live date (June 18), it’s time to pull the cover off the show-stopping, new style ‘Let’s get digital’ final day of the event.
Keeping our flood warning users posted with GOV.UK Notify
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Beth Brooks - Flood Warning System, Environment Agency, Posted on:
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Defra digital
The Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales are responsible for providing flood warning information to people at risk of flooding. Beth Brooks provides an update on how we use GOV.UK Notify - focusing on letters.
Switching to GOV.UK Notify for flood warning texts
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Steve White, Delivery Manager - Flood Warning System, Environment Agency, Posted on:
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Defra digital
The Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales are responsible for providing flood warning information to properties at risk of flooding. In recent weeks we’ve been moving our text notification service to GOV.UK Notify, providing us with many benefits and improvements.
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