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Education website accessibility: often a legal requirement, not a choice

Public education bodies are covered explicitly by law in most countries, with named standards and named deadlines. Private training providers are covered by the general rules.

Why it matters here specifically. In the United States, ADA Title II names WCAG 2.1 AA and sets an April 2026 deadline for larger public entities. Across the EU, EN 301 549 applies to public bodies already.

What fails on sites like yours

01Course PDFs and slide decks

Educational content is overwhelmingly distributed as PDFs and slides, and almost none of it is tagged.

What to do: Tag exports, add document titles, and provide key documents as web pages.

02Lecture video without real captions

Auto-generated captions mangle subject terminology precisely where accuracy matters most.

What to do: Correct the auto-captions. It takes a fraction of the time of writing them from scratch.

03Timetables as images or complex tables

A timetable screenshot is unreadable, and a table without proper headers is a stream of numbers with no meaning.

What to do: Use real tables with header cells and scope attributes.

04Enrolment forms with time limits

Sessions that expire mid-application discard the work of anyone who types slowly.

What to do: Extend the limit, warn before it expires, and let people ask for more time.

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