Accessibility: every learner, every lesson
Safety training only works if everyone on your team can take it. Every Science Safety course is built to WCAG 2.1 AA, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, so it works with a keyboard, with a screen reader, without sound, and without seeing the pictures.
It is not an add-on and not a widget. It is how the courses are built, under the Science Safety Teaching Standard.
On every course
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, applied to every lesson we publish.
What that means on a lesson
Works by keyboard
Every card, control and link can be reached and opened without a mouse, and a visible focus ring shows where you are.
Works with a screen reader
Headings are real headings, tables are real tables, and every control says what it is and whether it is open.
Captions on every video
And a lesson that rests on a video also carries its teaching in text.
Written to a reading level
Short sentences and plain words at a stated level for the course’s audience; colour is never the only thing that carries a meaning.
Pictures that are described
Every image and diagram carries a written description of what it teaches, in sentences.
Documents you can download
Every template and form you fill in or print is offered as a direct download beside its viewer.
Accommodations
Need more time, an alternative format, or another way to complete a task or a quiz? Tell us the course and the lesson through the Contact page and we will arrange it.
This statement covers the courses and pages of sciencesafety.com and was last reviewed on September 26, 2026.
Safer Science for everyone on your team
Every course in the Safer Catalog is built to WCAG 2.1 AA and to the Science Safety Teaching Standard.