Accessibility Statement for the jobs.ac.uk Website

This accessibility statement applies to www.jobs.ac.uk.

This website is run by Warwick University Services Ltd, trading as jobs.ac.uk. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website.

On this website, you should be able to:

• change colours, contrast levels and fonts
• zoom in, up to 200% without the text spilling off the screen
• use the site with assistive software such as TextHelp Read and Write and Zoomtext.
• 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 is this Website?

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

• You may not be able to access all content by using the keyboard alone
• Not all colour contrasts may meet sufficient contrast levels
• Not all images have alternative text
• Not all links have discernable names
• Not all PDFs have HTML alternatives, e.g. Products and Rates cards
• Tooltips are not enabled for all icons
• Not all PDFs meet accessibility standards
• There are moving images that can’t be paused
• There are pop ups that appear without warning

Feedback and Contact Information

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

• Email – servicedesk@wegit.co.uk
• Call – 024 7657 3400

We’ll consider your request and get back to you within 10 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 the accessibility team on servicedesk@wegit.co.uk or 024 7657 3400.

Enforcement Procedure

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is responsible for enforcing the accessibility regulations. If you’re not happy with how we respond to your complaint, contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS).

Technical Information About this Website’s Accessibility

Jobs.ac.uk 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 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 the WCAG 2.1 AA success criteria:

• All non-text content that is presented to the user might not have a text alternative
  • 1.1.1 Non-text Content
• Information, structure, and relationships conveyed through presentation may not be programmatically determined or may not be available in text.
  • 1.3.1 Info and Relationships
• Instructions provided for understanding and operating content may rely solely on sensory characteristics of components such as shape, colour, size, visual location, orientation, or sound.
  • 1.3.3 Sensory Characteristics
• Verification is needed to determine if colour is not used as the only visual means of conveying information, indicating an action, prompting a response, or distinguishing a visual element.
  • 1.4.1 Use of Color
• There may not be sufficient colour contrast between font and background colours, especially where the text size is very small
  • 1.4.3 - Contrast (Minimum)
• Since all functionality of the content may not be operable using a keyboard interface, then focus may not be moved away from that component using only a keyboard interface, and, if it requires more than unmodified arrow or tab keys or other standard exit methods, there may not be any instruction provided for the user for moving focus away
  • 2.1.2 No Keyboard Trap
• A mechanism may not be available to bypass blocks of content that are repeated on multiple Web pages
  • 2.4.1 Bypass Blocks
• The purpose of each link may not be determined from the link text alone or from the link text together with its programmatically determined link context.
  • 2.4.4 Link Purpose (In Context)
• It is not always clear to tell where you have navigated to when you are using a keyboard
  • 2.4.7 Focus Visible
• The default human language of each Web page may not be programmatically determined.
  • 3.1.1 Language of Page
• There are pop up’s that appear without warning
  • 3.2.2 On Input
• Error messages may not always be clear
  • 3.3.2 Labels or Instructions
• Some elements may not have complete start and end tags or elements may contain duplicate attributes.
  • 4.1.1 Parsing
• For all user interface components (including but not limited to: form elements, links and components generated by scripts), the name and role can be programmatically determined; states, properties, and values that can be set by the user may not be programmatically set; and notification of changes to these items may not be available to user agents, including assistive technologies.
  • 4.1.2 Name, Role, Value

Disproportionate Burden

We do not at the current time claim the non-conformances are a disproportionate burden to fix. We are currently assessing ways of fixing the issues, once that work is complete, we may reassess the issue. Particularly with some of our legacy content.

Content That’s not Within the Scope of the Accessibility Regulations

PDFs and other documents

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.

What We’re Doing to Improve Accessibility

• Much of the site is built on legacy code, making changes complicated. We are underway with changing the underpinning platforms to modernise them. All new systems and processes are being built with “accessibility by design”.
• We historically make one or two major updates to the site each year. Each future major update will address key areas of the site and adjust accessibility.
• The accessibility statement will be updated with each major update
• We would like editors of the website to be fully conversant with best practice

Preparation of this Accessibility Statement

This statement was prepared on 22nd September 2020. It was last reviewed on 22nd September 2020

This website was last tested on 22nd September 2020. The test was carried out internally by conducting a manual check of carefully chosen sample pages and content types. We continue to review the site on a regular basis to check new content.

We used the following Quality Assurance tools in the preparation of this statement:

• IBM Equal Access Accessibility checker