Accessibility: information and resources

We are continually aiming to make sure that our content can be accessed by everyone, including those with hearing, visual, cognitive and motor impairments.  

Here are some key initiatives we’re working on:

• Making improvements to our use of colour on our website and user interface
• Investigating ways in which our video output can be more accessible, such as using subtitling
• Improving the way our content is structured and written so that it can be understood by the widest possible audience
• Quality assurance testing to inform our plan for improving the website's functionality and accessibility

AbilityNet has a wide range of factsheets and information to help disabled website users. Their website contains further links to literacy-related organisations and specialist IT suppliers.

Wikipedia contains a useful overview of the subject and provides more information on computer accessibility.

The Website Accessibility Initiative (WAI) collaborates with many organisations when helping them to make their content easy to access.

Accessibility guides produced by operating systems:

• Apple’s guide to accessing the Macintosh for disabled users
• Gnome accessibility – developers working on open-source solutions for Linux
• Microsoft’s accessibility site