This accessibility statement applies to the Open Studio Westminster website (http://www.openstudiowestminster.org/). The School of Architecture & Cities is responsible for the digital accessibility of this website.
This website
is run by the University of Westminster. We want as many people as possible to
be able to use this website, which means that you should be able to:
· change colours, contrast levels
and fonts
· zoom in up to 300% without the
text spilling off the screen
· navigate the website using just
a keyboard
· navigate the website using
speech recognition software
· listen to most of the website using
a screen reader (most well-known screen readers)
We’ve also made the
website text as simple as possible to understand.
For more advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability, visit the AbilityNet website.
We know some parts of this website are not fully accessible and have listed the issues according to level of impact, from high to low:
· Some functional images do not have appropriate alternative text. As a result, assistive technology users might not understand the image content and purpose.
· Pages with illogical heading structure and skipped heading levels make it difficult for screen reader and keyboard users to understand the content structure of the page.
· Some interactive elements are not keyboard accessible and lack the correct roles.
· No skip link is available for users to bypass certain blocks of content.
· Some videos do not have the required audio description or media alternative.
· Text with insufficient colour contrast can be difficult to read, especially for those with low vision, poor eyesight, or colour blindness.
· Lack of focus indication may cause some keyboard users difficulty when navigating the site.
· Poor reflow and resizing of the site when zoomed may cause issues for low vision users.
· Interactive animated elements do not have a mechanism to stop or pause their transitions making them distracting and difficult to operate.
If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille, please visit our digital accessibility contact us webpage for information on how to request this.
We have tested a sample of pages on the website. If you find an issue we have not yet identified, you can report it to us. We’ll pass this information to the website owner who will review the issue, make sure it is included in our plan to fix issues and add it into the accessibility statement when it is next updated.
Please visit our digital accessibility contact us webpage for information on how to report an accessibility problem.
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).
You can contact us by email or phone. If you
prefer to visit us in person, get in touch and we’ll advise on which teams are
available to meet with you.
Information on how to contact us is available on our digital accessibility contact us webpage.
The University of
Westminster is committed to making its websites 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.
The content listed below is non-accessible for the following reasons:
· There are functional
images without alternative text. Some images on the site lack suitable
alternative text (WCAG 2.1 success criteria 1.1.1).
· Some videos do not have
the required audio description or media alternative. (WCAG: 1.2.2, 1.2.3).
· Heading levels do not
follow a logical sequence. Some heading levels are skipped, some visual
headings are not semantically marked up as headings (WCAG 2.1 success criterion
1.3.1).
· The colour scheme on the
website does not provide sufficient contrast for some links and images of text.
(WCAG 2.1 success criteria 1.4.3 and 1.4.11).
· Majority of text elements do not resize, some content overlaps and is truncated at 200% zoom (WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.4.4).
· The site does not appropriately reflow content when viewed at
400% zoom (WCAG 2.1 success criteria 1.4.10).
· There are problems with
accessing the main menu and background slider via keyboard (WCAG 2.1. success
criteria 2.1.1)
· There is no mechanism
available to pause or stop animated background slider. (WCAG 2.1 success
criterion 2.2.2)
· Pages lack skip links to
bypass repetitive content (WCAG 2.1 success criterion 2.4.1).
· Majority of interactive elements have no visible focus indicator for keyboard (WCAG 2.1 success criterion 2.4.7).
·
Some interactive controls lack the correct roles (4.1.2).
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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.
We are working to review the PDFs and Word documents that are essential to providing our services. We’ll either fix these or replace them with accessible HTML pages.
Any new PDFs or Word documents we publish after 23 September 2020 will meet accessibility standards.
We do not plan to add captions to pre-recorded time-based media published before 23 September 2020 because these are exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations.
We do not plan to add captions to live video streams because live video is exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations.
This statement was prepared on 1st September 2020. It was last reviewed on 1st September 2020.
This website was last tested on 15th of July 2020. The test was carried out by AbilityNet, an external auditor who specialises in digital accessibility.
We took expert advice from AbilityNet to identify a sample of pages to test. AbilityNet selected a sample of webpages based on the potential challenges that inaccessible content would have on the core user-journey of the site.
We are working to address the issues identified in the ‘Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations’ section above. We will prioritise our efforts to address the issues with the highest impact on users. We are working to develop an accessibility roadmap to show how and when we plan to improve accessibility on this website.
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