Accessibility statement

This accessibility statement applies to the website located at sedarc.ac.uk.

This website is run by the SEDarc team. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:

  • Zoom in up to 200% without the text spilling off the screen.
  • Navigate most of the website using a keyboard or 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.

How accessible this SEDarc.ac.uk

While we are committed to make the website accessible to all users, we are aware that some parts of this website may not be fully accessible:

  • Some headings within a page may not be in logical order e.g., skipping heading levels, missing level-one heading.
  • Not all images used within the website may have relevant alt text/description.
  • Some videos may not have audio captions, text transcript or audio descriptions.

Feedback and contact information

If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, contact SEDarc admin team: sedarc@rhul.ac.uk.

If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille, please contact the SEDarc admin team: sedarc@rhul.ac.uk.

We’ll consider your request and get back to you in 7 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, contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS).

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

SEDarc (The South East Doctoral Training Arc) is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

Compliance status

The website has been tested against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 AA standard and is partially compliant.

Non-accessible content

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

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations

The following items are currently not compliant with WCAG 2.1 AA criteria or best accessibility practice:

  • Heading levels should only increase by one (Best practice)
  • Page should contain a level-one heading (Best practice)
  • Some images may not have suitable alt text.

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

PDFs and other documents

Some of our PDFs and Word documents are essential to providing our services. The accessibility regulations do not require us to fix PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018 if they are not essential to providing our services.

But we do try our best to make sure that PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards.

Live video

We do not plan to add captions to live video streams because live video is exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations.

What we’re doing to improve accessibility

Internally, to improve accessibility on this website, we first prioritise the issues based on the severity and record them in various tickets or work-items. They are worked on periodically starting from the critical ones. 

Internally, we use various tools like Lighthouse and axe-core DevTools regularly to test the website for any accessibility issues. We test the various types of pages so that we can cover the range of templates the website uses.

We also tend to have an annual accessibility audit performed by an external 3rd party team for our root/parent CMS that hosts this website.

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared on 28 May 2024. It was last reviewed on 28 May 2024.
This website was last tested on 09 May 2024 against the WCAG 2.1 AA standard.
The test was self-assessed by SEDarc website team.