Accessibility guidance
With more people seeking advice and information and sharing their views with Healthwatch online, it's important that we are all taking steps to ensure all our content is accessible.
What do we mean by accessibility?
Accessibility means ensuring everyone can access your information, providing equal access and opportunities to people with diverse abilities.
The content you produce and upload must meet high standards to ensure you provide information that everyone can benefit from.
The accessibility guide covers
- New Web Content Accessibility rules, introduced in September 2023
- How to provide accessible images, multimedia content and downloads
- Event accessibility considerations
Accessibility policy template
Our template provides you with a suggested structure for the policy you should display on your website.
This policy covers:
- Digital accessibility
- Online events
- Face-to-face events
Downloads
Accessibility guidance
Accessibility policy template