Digital accessibility and why it's important
Understand what digital accessibility is and why you must create accessible emails, digital documents, and web content.
Digital accessibility guidance
Explaining our legal duty to provide accessible web content and how you need to make accessible digital content, including web pages, emails, and documents.
Understanding accessibility
What digital accessibility means, why you need to create accessible content, and where to find out more about the regulations we all need to follow.
Website accessibility statement
The following statement explains how bath.ac.uk meets The Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Apps) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations.
The Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Apps) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations
The government regulations for website accessibility, which we're required to meet as a public sector organisation.
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
The internationally recognised standards, set by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), for making websites perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust.
Making Bath digitally accessible
The University has a legal duty to make sure our digital content meets accessibility requirements.
Writing and reviewing accessible web content
How to write digital content that's accessible for everyone and review your team's web pages to make sure they comply with the accessibility regulations.
Writing for the web
How to write impactful and accessible content for the website.
Writing accessible web page titles and summaries
How to write clear, descriptive, and accessible page titles and summaries for the University website.
Reviewing web content
Why you must review other people's changes to web pages and what to look for before you or a colleague publishes them on the University website.
Formatting accessible content in Typecase
How to use Markdown in Typecase (our website publishing platform) to make sure your pages are accessible for everyone.
Creating headings in Typecase
How to use headings to structure your content and improve the accessibility of University web pages.
Creating links in Typecase
How to add clear, accessible, and functional links to web pages on the University website.
Creating lists in Typecase
How to correctly write and format bulleted and numbered lists on the University website.
Creating tables in Typecase
How to display accessible tabular data on the University website.
Using Markdown to format text in Typecase
How to add headings, links, lists, tables, and other formatting to your content on the University website.
Creating accessible digital media
What you need to do to make images, videos, and audio content accessible for everyone, on the website and in other places online.
Making images on a web page accessible
How to make different types of images accessible to everyone using the University website.
Making accessible video and audio content
What you must do to make sure your videos and audio recordings are accessible to everyone and comply with government regulations.
Making your iframe embeds accessible
How to make your embedded multimedia on Typecase more accessible.
Making documents and emails accessible
How to make your digital documents and emails accessible so you don't exclude colleagues, students, or other people with learning difficulties and disabilities.
Making your emails accessible
How to write and format your emails so they're accessible to everyone and easy to navigate.
Making digital documents accessible
How to make sure the documents you create are accessible and easy to navigate, whether you share them internally, to other organisations, or on the website.
Creating accessible teaching materials
Resources to help you create accessible teaching materials for all students, including the Technology Enhanced Learning Community of Practice on Teams.
Creating accessible teaching materials
How to create accessible teaching materials for students to use online. Part of the Learning and Teaching website, teachinghub.bath.ac.uk.
Designing accessible lectures
What you should do before and after your lectures to make sure all students can engage with the information you're teaching.
Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Community of Practice Teams group
Join the TEL Community of Practice Teams group for the latest discussions and updates about making teaching materials accessible.
Adding accessible documents to Research Portal (Pure)
Guidance about creating accessible documents for the Research Portal, as well as information on the accessibility of legacy documents in the Portal.
Creating accessible documents for the Research Portal (Pure)
How to make sure your documents on the Research Portal are accessible to everyone.
Research Portal (Pure) accessibility protocol
The web accessibility statement for the University's research repository.
Contact us
If you have questions, please contact:
- the Digital Content team about creating content for the website, emails, and digital documents
- the Assistive Technology team about IT equipment and software to help improve your access to digital content