How to create accessible content

Anyone who creates or commissions content for our websites must make sure it's accessible. These guides help explain how to do this on our: 

  • public websites, like www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk
  • internal websites, like our intranet and SharePoint sites
  • websites we pay a supplier to run

In most cases, we would expect you to make sure your content is accessible using these guides. 

What digital accessibility means to us

Why content is better as a web page

How we can help with web content

What accessible content is

What it is, laws and standards we must follow and who's responsible.

Writing web content

How to write content for the web, using structured headings, good readability and clear hyperlinks (H R H).

Using images in content

When to use images in online content and how to make them accessible.

Web page content

How to make content you publish on web pages accessible.

Word documents

How to make the Word documents you publish accessible.

Video and audio content

How to make video and audio-only content you publish accessible.

Our content publishing guides are for council employees, partner organisations and external suppliers that work with us.

If you have a question about this information or something not covered in this guidance, contact the communications team.