What is digital accessibility?
Digital accessibility is the process of ensuring that as many people as possible have unhindered access to digital information, materials and training resources hosted online.
Digital accessibility aims to reduce the barriers for users to access digital content. It is specifically useful for users with disabilities such as users with impairments to sight, hearing, mobility and differences in processing and understanding information.
However, digital accessibility doesn’t just impact users with disabilities, it also provides benefits for all users. For example, the pinch & zoom function on your mobile phone can be considered an accessibility feature that can be useful to almost everyone.
Why is it important?
Digital accessibility is important as it ensures that our students are able to access our offer of digital resources and get the best experience in our live training sessions.
Ensuring our digital resources are compliant with WCAG 2.1 is also a legal requirement, and therefore should underpin all resources created in partnership with WRDTP. For information on how accessible this website is, you can view our WRDTP Accessibility Statement.
Our Approach
The WRDTP is committed to accessibility in order to provide the best possible experience for our students.
Please view the guidance below on how to tailor your materials/sessions to ensure they are accessible. Guidance is available on both content hosted online and in-person sessions.
Accessibility in sessions
If a student attending one of our sessions requires any additional provisions, this will be communicated to staff hosting the event ahead of time to ensure appropriate arrangements are made.
Currently, live sessions that are recorded are captioned by the WRDTP before being shared. When sharing slides/session resources, you should check that they are aligned with the SCULPT accessibility design principles and are share in their native formats e.g. PowerPoint rather than an exported PDF.
