Accessibility

Accessibility statement for University of Edinburgh Centre for Research in Digital Education

Website accessibility statement inline with Public Sector Body (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018

This accessibility statement applies to https://www.de.ed.ac.uk/

The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research in Digital Education is run by Moray House School of Education and Sport on behalf of the University of Edinburgh. The website used the content management system Drupal 9.

We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:

  • change colours, contrast levels and fonts
  • magnify the content to 300% without the text spilling off the screen
  • Experience no time limits to content
  • navigate most of the website using just a keyboard
  • listen to most of the website using a screen reader such as JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)

We’ve also made the website text as simple as possible to understand.   

Customising the website

AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability. This is an external site with suggestions to make your computer more accessible:

AbilityNet - My Computer My Way

With a few simple steps you can customise the appearance of our website to make it easier to read and navigate.

Additional information on how to customise our website appearance

If you are a member of the University staff or a student you can use the free Sensus Access accessible document conversion service.

SenusAccess Information

How accessible this website is

We know some parts of this website are not fully accessible:

  • PDF’s may not be fully accessible
  • Not all audio/visual items have captions
  • Not all colour contrasts meet the recommended WCAG 2.1 AA standards
  • Not all non text content has alt text provided
  • Not all links are clearly labelled with their destination

Feedback and Contact Information

If you need information on this service in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille:

If you need information on this website in a different format, including accessible PDF, large print, audio recording or braille:

We’ll process your request and get back to you within 5 working days.

If you are a member of the University staff or a Student you can use the free Sensus Access accessible document conversion service Information on SensusAccess Conversion Service

Reporting accessibility problems with this website

We’re always looking to improve the accessibility of this service. If you find any problems that aren’t listed on this page or think we’re not meeting the requirements of the accessibility regulations, contact:

We will process your request and get back to you within 5 working days

Enforcement procedure

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is responsible for enforcing the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018 (the ‘accessibility regulations’). If you’re not happy with how we respond to your complaint please contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS) directly.

Contact details for the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS)

The government has produced information on how to report accessibility issues:

Reporting an accessibility problem on a public sector website

 

Contacting us by phone using British Sign Language

British Sign Language service

contactSCOTLAND-BSL runs a service for British Sign Language users and all of Scotland’s public bodies using video relay. This enables sign language users to contact public bodies and vice versa. The service operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

contactSCOTLAND-BSL service details

 

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

The University of Edinburgh is committed to making its websites and applications accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 AA standard, due to the non-compliances listed below.

The full guidelines are available at:

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 AA standard

Non-accessible content

The content listed below is non-accessible for the following reasons.

Noncompliance with the accessibility regulations

As at December 2022, the following items do not comply with the WCAG 2.1 AA success criteria:

Unless specified otherwise, a complete solution, or significant improvement, will be in place for those items within our control by December 2023.

 

Disproportionate burden

We are not currently claiming that any accessibility problems would be a disproportionate burden to fix.

 

Content that’s not within the scope of the accessibility regulations

At this time we do not believe that any content is outside the scope of the accessibility regulations.

 

What we’re doing to improve accessibility

We will continue to monitor the websites’s accessibility annually and will carry out further accessibility testing if significant changes are made to or if a service user raises an issue. Until we are able to resolve an issue or if we are unable to resolve any issue, we will ensure reasonable adjustments are in place to make sure no user is disadvantaged.

Information Services and accessibility

Information Services (IS) has further information on accessibility including assistive technology, creating accessible documents, and services IS provides for disabled users.

Assistive technology, creating accessible documents, and services IS provides for disabled users

 

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This website was tested initially during August 2020. The test was carried out within the Centre for Research in Digital Education using a Chrome browser in combination with the WAVE WebAIM web accessibility evaluation tool.  We will seek manual testing of this site by the University of Edinburgh Disability Service when capacity allows. The pages of our website tested include indicative examples of all website page types - home, project, people, publications, event, engagement, news, teaching. Annual accessibility reviews will focus on errors detected by the Little Forest accessibility tool.

 

Change record

November 2023

We continue to work with the University of Edinburgh Digital Innovation Team to make accessibility improvements to this website. 

LittleForest accessibility score for www.de.ed.ac.uk (as at 14/11/23) - all pages rate higher than 90%. CAHSS digital estate contacted to change main menu from <h2> to <h1>.

December 2022

We continue to work with the University of Edinburgh Digital Innovation Team to make accessibility improvements to this website. The following three improvements were completed during 2022:

  • Pause option to be added to gifs.
  • 'Research Areas' sub-menu to be restructured vertically as a list rather than in columns.
  • Controls added to the Home page image 'slider'   

Ongoing accessibility work will focus on University of Edinburgh priority areas for improvement and those identified through the LittleForest accessibility tool. Current issues will be shown in the section detailing non-accessible content.

December 2020

This site is on a waiting list to be manually tested by the University of Edinburgh Disability Service. Progress made between September and December 2020 against known issues is documented below:

1.1.1 Non-text Content All non-text content published from 23 Sept 2020 will include text alternatives within our website.  Our time-based content held on our Media Hopper digital education channel includes a text description of the event. [Complete by 14/12/21]

1.2.2 Captions (Prerecorded) and 1.2.3 Audio Description of Media Alternative (Prerecorded) All videos published after 18th Sept 2020 now include captions. [Complete by 14/12/21]

1.3.2 Meaningful Sequence We are working with our website provider to consider how our website content can be programmatically determined and anticipate this issue being resolved by December 2021.

1.4.1 Use of colour We are working with our website provider to underline existing hyperlinks and anticipate this work being complete by June 2021. [Complete by 14/12/21]

1.4.3 Contrast (Minimum) We are working with our website provider to improve the colour contrast of hyperlink colours and anticipate this work being complete by June 2021.

1.4.5 Images of Text We will update or replace existing images of text where we link to content published prior to 23 Sept 2020.

1.4.8 Visual presentation We are working with our website provider to ensure text blocks conform to recommendations (1.5 line spacing, text not justified) and anticipate this work being complete by June 2021.

2.4.4 Link Purpose (In Context) We have revised our publishing process to include appropriate checks. [Complete by 14/12/21]

2.4.5 Multiple Ways We are working with our website provider (Digital Innovation Team, University of Edinburgh) to update the site with a sitemap and anticipate this issue being resolved by December 2021.

2.4.9 Link Purpose (Link Only) Those with responsibility for website publishing in the Centre for Research in Digital Education have guidelines on publishing to ensure correct labeling. [Complete by 14/12/21]

2.5.3 Label in Name We are working with our website provider to further test and improve labeling within our website. We anticipate this work being complete by June 2021.

2.5.5 Target Size We are working with our website provider to ensure target pointer inputs are at least 44 by 44 CSS pixels.  We anticipate this work being complete by December 2021.

3.1.4 Abbreviations We have updated our publishing checklist to ensure abbreviation checks are conducted. [Complete by 14/12/21]