Topics covered

Accessibility – creating accessible content

This session is to help you make any content or document uploaded onto a website or intranet meet the accessibility requirements.

The Government has introduced Accessibility Regulations and made it a legal requirement for all public sector organisations to ensure that all websites and intranets are accessible.  

​​To put it simply, any content or document which is being uploaded onto a website or intranet has to meet the requirements. This includes internal and external documents including:  ​ 

• ​PDFs
• ​Word documents
• ​Content and images on websites and intranets

​​As a public sector organisation, it is our responsibility to ensure that everything we produce is done so in line with the guidance outlined below. 

​​It is therefore the responsibility of all staff to ensure that any content they produce – for a website, a team microsite, or where it will be shared with colleagues or customers for online use – is accessible. 

This includes people with impairments to their: 

• Vision – such as people who are colour blind or have impaired sight
• Hearing – such as people who are hard of hearing or deaf
• Mobility – such as people who find it difficult to use a mouse or keyboard
• Thinking and understanding – such as people with dyslexia, autism or learning

Topics Covered

• Run the accessibility checker in Microsoft applications
• Adding Alt Text (Alternative Text) to images
• Use meaningful hyperlinks
• Questions and Answers

Online training will be delivered via MS Teams. You will receive joining instructions the day before your selected session.