Digital accessibility is the practice of making digital documents, emails, and web content easy for people to access, understand, and navigate.

Who's responsible for digital accessibility

You have a responsibility to make sure all digital content that you create and share is accessible. This includes, but is not limited to:

emails
digital documents, like Word docs, PowerPoint slides, and spreadsheets
pages on the University website
online teaching and training courses

As a university, we're legally obliged to make our website accessible to all users. If you add content to the University website, it's your responsibility to make sure it's accessible to everyone.

The new guidance

The new digital accessibility guidance will help you understand:

what digital accessibility means
why you need to create accessible content
how to implement it in your work
the accessibility regulations we need to follow

Guidance for Typecase users

As a university, we have a legal responsibility to make sure our web content is accessible to everyone.

We've integrated the new accessibility guidance with our existing guidance about:

This will help you prioritise accessibility so it becomes part of the process of creating, reviewing, and maintaining web content.

Guidance for all staff

Everyone is responsible for making their digital content accessible. When you share a document or send an email, it’s important to remember that people read information in different ways and may not process content in the same way you do.

The new accessibility guidance includes information for any staff to use when creating digital content, including: