Designing for Accessibility and Inclusion

Here you can find a range of internal and external support to help you design for accessibility and inclusion, as well as our hardware specifications.

Internal Support

• UoM Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Training and Support for staff.
• The EDI and ITS Digital Inclusion Strategy Group is defining a project within the Strategic Change Office to undertake work to make UoM digital products (developed and procured) accessible and compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and government accessibility legislation.  As part of this work, webinars and resources have been commissioned from Ability Net. They can be accessed here on the UoM Digital Inclusion pages. For further information on the accessibility strategy please email the team.
• ITL Resources: Making accessible teaching content and Inclusivity in education.
• The Microsoft 365 Champions offer a peer-led workshop on ‘Accessibility in Microsoft 365’: MCRO185. 
• FBMH Quick checks, FSE Teaching Academy resources include support to create accessible teaching and learning content.
• FSE Teaching Academy resources include support to create accessible teaching and learning content.
• An Accessibility and Inclusion question set is available to staff within the Jisc Discovery tool and there are accompanying resources in the tool’s resource bank to support development.

External Support

• Government Guidance: Understanding accessibility requirements for public sector bodies articulates what's legally required to make systems accessible.
• This Ability.net article outlines the statutory ‘Accessibility requirements for Higher and Further Education organisations’.
• The Further and Higher Education Digital Accessibility Working Group's digital accessibility toolkit.
• Advance HE: Inclusive curriculum design in Higher Education.

Jisc Guides:

• Getting started with accessibility and inclusion
• Accessibility regulations – what you need to know
• Meeting Accessibility regulations
• Creating an inclusive learner journey
• Digital inclusion.

Next Steps

• Learning & Organisational Development are creating an Accessibility and Inclusion resource that will soon be available to all staff.

• Accessibility and inclusivity are key considerations throughout the Central Learning Environment (CLE) and the wider Digital Learning Environment (DLE) to ensure educational resources are available to all individuals. The University is creating an inclusive digital learning environment to cater to diverse requirements, promote equal opportunities for all students and foster a culture of diversity and inclusion through the design and development of templates in Canvas.