Web accessibility starting point

If you're new to web accessibility, or to working with it on the University websites, it can be hard to know where to start. Essentially, this will depend on your role(s).

Roles

Editor of a T4 website

If you edit a website using T4, you should familiarise yourself with the web accessibility training for T4. When new elements are added to this training, they'll be announced in the web team blog, the University news bulletin, and by email.

You don't need to read any of the other information on this site, unless it's of particular interest to you, or you're directed to it because of a task you're working on. You may like to read the section 'what is web accessibility?' to help you understand the context of various webbing rules – but this is not a requirement.

If you read about web accessibility elsewhere, you may encounter information relating to:

the necessity to scan your site for compliance
the requirement for your site to have an accessibility statement.

The Digital Team look after both of these aspects for all T4 sites, so you won't need to be involved in this work.

The team supporting you in the creation and maintenance of your site is the Digital Team.

Editor of a WordPress website that uses Design Studio templates

If you edit a WordPress site that uses bespoke templates created by the Design Studio, then the Studio will manage the scanning of your site for accessibility compliance and will contact you about any aspects that need to be amended.

Editor of a WordPress website that uses Digital Team templates

If you edit a WordPress site that uses templates created by the Digital Team, then that team will manage the scanning of your site for accessibility compliance and will contact you about any aspects that need to be amended.

Editor of an ELE website

Online teaching sites are built using ELE. The Digital Learning Team oversee web accessibility for ELE websites.

If you edit webpages using ELE, the following may be helpful background reading if you'd like to understand more about web accessibility, but there's no expectation to read them:

This website does not contain any practical training materials for your platform. For information on digital accessibility in ELE, please visit the ELE Support and Guidance training page and the Digital Accessibility guide on SharePoint. You may be prompted to self-enrol on the ELE Support and Guidance page.

Editor of a Stand-Alone website

This includes WordPress sites with independent templates (i.e. not created by the Design Studio or the Digital Team).

See Stand-Alone websites and web content.