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.
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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.
It is part of a wider PHD research study to pilot the teaching of digital accessibility awareness education to pupils in school at Upper Key Stage 2.​
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
Further information about the skills and digital accessibility principles can be found on the ENABLED for Digital Accessibility leaflet (PDF)
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Techniques and resources for the teaching of digital accessibility awareness can be found at the ENABLED resources page.
©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.