Accessibility statement for www.edina.ac.uk

Accessibility statement for www.edina.ac.uk This website is run by EDINA at the University of Edinburgh. 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
  • zoom in up to 200% without the text spilling off the screen
  • navigate most of the website using just a keyboard
  • navigate most of the website using speech recognition software
  • listen to most of the website using a screen reader (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)
  • We’ve also made the website text as simple as possible to understand.

AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability.

How accessible this website is

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

  • May not be able to access all content by using the keyboard alone and it is unclear where you have tabbed to.
  • most older PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software.

What to do if you cannot access parts of this website

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

  • email edina@ed.ac.uk, or
  • call 0131 650 3302, or
  • write to EDINA, The University of Edinburgh, Argyle House, Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh EH3 9DR

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

Reporting accessibility problems with this website

We’re always looking to improve the accessibility of this website. If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, contact: edina@ed.ac.uk, call 0131 650 3302, or write to EDINA, The University of Edinburgh, Argyle House, Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh EH3 9DR.

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, contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS).

Contacting us by phone using British Sign Language

British Sign Language Scotland runs a service for BSL 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 from 8am to 12 midnight, 7 days a week.

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

EDINA is committed to making its website 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 version 2.1 AA standard, due to the non-compliances listed below.

Non-accessible content

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

** Non compliance with the accessibility regulations **

The following items do not comply with WCAG 2.1 AA success criteria:

  • It is not possible to use a keyboard to access all content. This does not meet WCAG 2.1 success criterion 2.1 (Keyboard accessible).

We intend to look and see if we can resolve any of these issues and take the necessary steps where possible by September 2023.

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

PDFs and other documents

Many of our older PDFs and Word documents do not meet accessibility standards – for example, they may not be structured so they’re accessible to a screen reader. This does not meet WCAG 2.1 success criterion 4.1.2.

Some of our PDFs and Word documents are essential to providing our services. For example, we have PDFs with information on how users can access our services. By September 2020, we plan to either fix these or replace them with accessible HTML pages.

The accessibility regulations do not require us to fix PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018 if they’re not essential to providing our services.

Any new PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards.

How we tested this website

This website was last tested in May 2019. The test was carried out by Viki Galt, Information Services, The University of Edinburgh.

We tested:

You can read the full accessibility test report here (Word document, 132Kb).

What we’re doing to improve accessibility

We plan to constantly review and where possible improve accessibility on this website. We will continue to strive to address these issues and deliver a solution or suitable workaround.

We will continue to monitor system accessibility and will carry out further accessibility testing as these issues are resolved.

** This statement was prepared on 5 September 2023. **