Accessibility requirements for school websites: guidance and template

You must publish an accessibility statement on your school's website that explains how you've made it accessible to as many people as possible. Adapt our template statement, and find guidance on meeting the standards.

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on 12 March 2025
School types: AllSchool phases: AllRef: 50994
Contents
  1. Your requirements
  2. Check your website's accessibility
  3. Decide what accessibility issues you need to fix
  4. Publish your accessibility statement
  5. Adapt our accessibility statement template
  6. See examples from schools

Your requirements

You must publish an accessibility statement on your website. This should explain how your website is accessible to as many people as possible, and any areas where it's not meeting accessibility standards.

Please note: this requirement isn't included in the DfE's list of what maintained schools and academies must publish online. Instead, it's explained in this government guidance.

Make your website accessible

Primary schools, secondary schools and nurseries are partially exempt from website accessibility regulations except for the content people need in order to use your services. There is no legal definition of what this includes, but it should be anything that requires the user to complete an action – for example, an online form that lets parents/carers outline school meal preferences or make a payment.

The DfE's digital standards for accessibility also explain that school communications (including websites)