Digital Accessibility

Accessible content is better content

Digitally accessible content is easier for everyone to access. It's the right thing to do, and it's the law.

Ensuring our digital content is accessible fits with our values and supports the University’s aims of widening access, civic engagement, and inclusivity. We also have legal obligations to ensure our digital content is accessible under the Equality Act 2010 and Digital Accessibility Regulations 2018.

15% of UofG students and 10% of UofG staff have a declared disability (Source: Digital User Experience Survey at UofG 2024/25)

Inclusive by design

Making your content accessible and inclusive ensures it can be used by as many people as possible.

The top three accessibility issues at UofG are:

• PDFs with no headings or titles
• Poor colour contrast
• No alternative text (alt text) for images

Avoiding these problems is a great place to start.

Guidance for your role at UofG

General guidelines: THRIVES

• Documents
• Alternative formats
• Audio and video
• Social media
• Third-party content

For teaching staff

• Digital accessibility guidance for learning and teaching staff

For students

• Digital accessibility guidance for students

For platform owners

• Legal requirements for platform owners

THRIVES: Making your content accessible

These guidelines were adapted from the The Centre for Educational Development (CED) at Queen's University Belfast, who designed the THRIVES acronym to help you remember key accessibility considerations to comply with UK Digital Accessibilty Regulations. 

Used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.