Digital Accessibility
The aim of this page is to provide resources and guidance on how best to work and study in accessible ways, and on how to ensure that resources that you create yourself are accessible for others.
UCL guidance and support
Digital Accessibility Policy
The Digital Accessibility Policy for UCL helps to ensure that our online content, documentation, multimedia, teaching and training content, and digital applications and platforms are accessible to all.
The policy’s objectives are to:
- Know how accessible our existing products and content are, so that we can inform and support our users, and plan for improvements.
- Ensure new products, features and content developed or created by UCL are ‘accessible first’ which means that accessibility is designed in rather than added in later.
- Ensure solutions procured by UCL – both centrally and at departmental level – are accessible wherever possible; and lobby/negotiate/educate suppliers who fall short
Creating accessible content
A few simple steps can make your content more accessible and provides a more inclusive experience.
- Accessibility fundamentals
- Visuals and use of colour;
- Websites, wikis, blogs and social media;
- Moodle and MyPortfolio;
- Slides;
- Documents;
- Email;
- Lecturecast and other multimedia;
- Live sessions and events;
- Mathematics and programming;
- Forms and survey tools.
Templates and guides
Accessibility regulations and requirements
Scheduled UCL courses
- Creating accessible Word documents;
- Creating accessible PowerPoint presentations;
- Accessibility and assistive technology training.
Self paced courses and tutorials
- Accessible Teaching Practices - UCL Moodle course;
- Birkbeck for All - Birkbeck accessibility tutorials;
- Creating accessible documents in Microsoft Office - LinkedIn Learning course;
- Make your content accessible to everyone - Microsoft guidance.
Tools and checkers
- Accessibility Insights - check contrast levels and web-based resources;
- Colour Contrast Analyser;
- NVDA (Non-Visual Desktop Access) screen reader;
- Microsoft Office accessibility checkers : Powerpoint, Word, Outlook;
- UCL's Sensus Access service: converting image only PDFs, image files or PowerPoint into a more accessible form;
- Blackboard Ally for Moodle content.