25 years of building for councils
We’ve been building websites since 1998, and for most of that time a good share of the work has been for the public sector. Devon County Council, Cornwall Council, the Duchy of Cornwall, the Met Offic…
July
16 ·2026
Earlier posts
From the archive
Notes, case studies and commentary from the Velocity team.
July
15 ·2026
What accessible actually means: our latest build for Devon County Council
“Accessible” is one of the most over-used words in web design and one of the least often earned. On a public health site it isn’t a badge — it’s the difference between someone finding the help they ca…
July
8 ·2026
Building a website for a six-partner ocean science consortium
Some websites answer to one client. This one answers to six. The National Partnership for Ocean Prediction brings together six of the UK’s leading marine science institutions under a single banner — a…
November
5 ·2025
WCAG 2.1 AA: what accessibility compliance actually means
“Accessible” is one of the most over-used words in web design and one of the least often earned. People say a site is accessible when they mean it has alt text on a few images. Real accessibility — th…
July
15 ·2025
What makes a council website different
From the outside, a council website looks like any other website. It isn’t. The requirements that shape it — legal, procedural, organisational — are unlike anything a commercial brochure site has to d…