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Accessibility Statement
Features to enhance the site's accessibility
These features have been provided to help make our site as accessible as possible to as many people as possible
- On each page a 'skip to main content' link allows direct access past the navigation bars to the page's main
content
- All text should be resizable using a browser text-resize option
- Alternative user-defined style sheets can be applied to allow changes in the site's appearance without
affecting the readability or accessibility of the information
- HTML heading elements have been used to represent page structure, supporting screen readers that
allow page navigation from heading to heading
- All hyperlinks should make sense when read out of context, and hyperlinks change colour when the
destination page has been visited
- All images have been given appropriate alternative text
- A navigation bar linking to the main sections of the site is provided at the top of each page
- A 'breadcrumb trail' navigation feature is provided to help navigation
- The site has been tested to ensure that it is accessible in a wide range of browsers
Visual Design
- Cascading Style Sheets have been used to control the presentation of pages and properly structured markup
has been used for content
- If stylesheets are not supported or are turned off, information on the site can still be accessed and
read
- Relative font sizes are used, which allows users to resize text as needed
Contact Information
We've done our best to ensure this site is as accessible as possible, but it can happen that accessibility
problems do arise despite our best efforts. If you do find any accessibility barriers that affect or prevent your
use and enjoyment of the site, please let us know and we'll do our best to address the problem as soon as possible.
email: webadmin@computing.dundee.ac.uk
tel: +44 (0) 1382 384151
fax: +44 (0) 1382 385509
write to:
School of Computing
University of Dundee
Dundee
Scotland
DD1 4HN
Standards Compliance
- All HTML should validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional using the
W3C markup validator
- All stylesheets should validate using W3C CSS validator
- All pages should comply with our interpretation of all relevant priority 1,2 and 3
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, with the
following exceptions:
- Regarding Checkpoint 11.1,
we consider XHTML 1.0 Strict to be acceptable as a 'latest version' of a W3C technology
- Regarding Checkpoint 14.2, the nature of
our site is that it's mainly textual content, and thus we don't have many instances of graphical content
to supplement our text. We will, though, make sure that wherever we can support our textual content with
graphical content if it helps understanding.
*The site has also been checked for accessibility and usability by the
digital media access group.
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