ENABLED for Digital Accessibility Awareness Education
Digital accessibility is about making digital content work for as many people as possible, including those with disabilities and those using assistive technologies.
ENABLED is a curriculum framework model that brings together the findings from a literature review about the key learning components and activities needed to teach digital accessibility awareness.
ENABLED stands for:
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Education for the
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National Curriculum that covers the five components of:
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Awareness of disability types and the need for accessibility and inclusive design
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Barriers in digital content that impact those with disabilities
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Legal frameworks and guidelines for digital accessibility
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Evaluation of digital content to make recommendations for accessibility
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Digital skills development to make accessible content
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Digital skills
Using the updated SCULPT model the type of digital skills pupils could learn would be:
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how to add heading styles to structure a document
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creating information with good colour contrast and not relying on colour alone
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how to add captions to a video for people with hearing impairments
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how to use the accessibility checkers in Microsoft 365 to identify and fix inaccessible content
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how to add alt text to an image for people who are blind
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how to create descriptive links
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writing information using a plain language approach
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creating tables with a header row that avoid merged or split cells
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how to generate a transcript of audio or video content
©ENABLED for Digital Accessibility by Helen Wilson
This research builds upon previous work such as Time to sow new seeds for digital accessibility and Everyone can SCULPT for Accessibility.