Digital Accessibility Enhancement Roadmap

91ЕМКН has a huge web estate with a variety of websites spanning across many different platforms and services. We try to make our websites and services as accessible as possible.

After an accessibility maturity audit by in the summer of 2023, we have developed our roadmap to enhance accessibility by addressing the identified areas for improvement.

Ongoing activities

Complete the mapping of digital estate
Clarify ownership, responsibility, and governance processes
Update job descriptions for new jobs involving digital content creation or digital communication to include knowledge of digital accessibility
Create accessible exemplars and templates

Future activities

Make effective use of Blackboard dataЬ§т Deferred until the new Blackboard Ultra is rolled out
Identifying "91ЕМКН Accessible Practices"
Identify student journey issues by sampling typical student journeys and checking for friction points
Explore prospectusЬ§
Clarify lecture recording and video expectations

Completed activities

Digital Accessibility Service DocumentationЬ§т October 2025
Updating the University Procurement IT Standard T&C to include explicit reference to WCAG 2.2 AA complianceЬ§т August 2025
D&I Funding Initiative 2024/25 Project - Digital Inclusion: Sampling key user journeys with a pan-disability lensЬ§т June 2025
Create an introductory digital accessibility module for staff т March 2024Ь§
Appoint a formal champions network тЬ§January 2024
Create a module for writing for webЬ§т February 2023
Disabled students forumЬ§т completed through the ongoing Inclusion Consultants programme.

Website improvements

2025

Fixing invalid ARIA state or property issues
Including accessibility in component design and development (unit level)
Removing infinite scrolling by adding "load more" buttons to help navigation

2024

Accessible tiles for storiesЬ§т July 2024
OCR iD link compliance for WCAG 2.2 Target Minimum т March 2024
PhD Opportunities pages accessibility improvementsЬ§т January 2024
Tab focus improvement on Teal template т January 2024
Breadcrumbs menu and tables colour contrast improvement т January 2024

2023

OCR ID Link alternative text improvement т December 2023
Cookie Banner keyboard accessibility improvementЬ§т December 2023
Screen reader and keyboard accessibiltiy of Tab componentЬ§т December 2023
Enabling captions on embedded YouTube videosЬ§т November 2023
Enable text zooming without clipping on main siteЬ§т November 2023
Colour contrast improvement on course pagesЬ§т November 2023
Screen reader accessibility improvement for accordion componentЬ§т November 2023
Improve accessibility of embedded YouTube video compoentЬ§т September 2023
Page language issue fixed across the web estateЬ§т August 2023
Increasing line height for textЬ§т July 2023
Table component accessibility improvement т July 2023
Improve assistive technology access to menu listsЬ§т July 2023
Improving assistive technology access to the search form fieldЬ§т March 2023

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