Here are eight core skills for digital accessibility that we need everyone to know about and practice together.
There is more that goes into digital accessibility than just these eight skills, but these items are broadly relevant for most people across different types of work. If you create and share documents, emails, podcasts, videos, web content, or apps, accessibility is part of your job, and these are the core skills you will need to practice consistently.
Please think of these items as skills: things you will practice and develop greater fluency with over time. These pages provide a high-level introduction to help you understand the why before the how. How you implement these skills in practice will vary between different contexts and will depend on which program or app you are using, and we will work to provide more practical and specific guidance elsewhere. For example, please refer to Accessible Word Documents for guidance specific to Microsoft Word.