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

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations

There are a few instances where keyboard-only users or users of assistive technology may experience an unexpected focus order when they open up hidden content or modal dialogues. This doesn’t meet WCAG 2.1 success criterion 2.4.3 (focus order). These issues will be fixed when we launch our new website in June 2023.

There are a few instances where keyboard-only users may be unable to access all the content. For instance, within some of the accordions, some of the content is not accessible.  This doesn’t meet WCAG 2.1 success criterion 2.1.1 (keyboard). These issues will be fixed when we launch our new website in June 2023.

Some of our PDFs and other documents, which are essential for administrative processes, don’t fully meet accessibility requirements. We are working through these documents to ensure their content will be accessible or that an accessible alternative is available.

Some title elements are not marked up as headings or with the correct heading level, so some assistive technology users may not fully understand the content. This doesn’t meet WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.3.1 (information and relationships). These issues will be fixed when we launch our new website in June 2023.

There are a number of parsing (coding) issues, including elements with duplicate attributes, which can affect accessibility technology. This doesn’t meet WCAG 2.1 success criterion 4.1.1 (parsing). These issues will be fixed when we launch our new website in June 2023.

Video content across the website has various problems, including a lack of captions, audio descriptions and media alternatives. This doesn’t meet WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.2.2, 1.2.3 and 1.2.5, which cover captions, audio descriptions and media alternatives requirements. These issues will be fixed when we launch our new website in June 2023.

Disproportionate burden

We recognise that the accessibility of our website is not perfect, and we are working hard to correct the identified issues on our current platform. We are currently (October 2022) developing a new website with an external partner, which will address those areas that cannot be amended on our current platform. Although we do not claim it would be a disproportionate burden to fix these issues, we know that establishing a new website takes time. Our anticipated date for implementation of the new site is June 2023.

The new website project is being prioritised because it will provide all users with an inclusive, widely accessible digital environment. As such, there may be some areas of non-accessibility of the current website that we cannot address or give priority to at present, as doing so would detract staff resources from the new website project. This will ultimately offer the best solution for all users encountering accessibility difficulties.

Please contact us if you encounter difficulties accessing parts of our website using the email address web@uwtsd.ac.uk. We will support you in finding the information you need and consider interim fixes on a case-by-case basis.

PDFs and other documents

Many of our older PDFs and Word documents don’t meet accessibility standards. For example, they may not be marked up so they are accessible to a screen reader. This doesn’t meet WCAG 2.1 success criterion 4.1.2 (name, role value). The accessibility regulations don’t require us to fix PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018 if they’re not essential for active administrative processes. Any new PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards.

Video captions

Some of our older videos don’t have accurate edited captions or transcripts. This doesn’t meet WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.2.1 (audio-only and video-only pre-recorded), 1.2.2 (captions pre-recorded), 1.2.3 (audio description or media alternative pre-recorded) and 1.2.5 (audio description pre-recorded). The regulations do not apply to recorded videos published before 23 September 2020. However, while these videos are not subject to the legislation, we have carried out an audit of all our videos and have begun a process of updating captions and adding full transcripts. Any new videos we publish will have edited captions and transcripts.

Live video

Our live video streams don’t have captions. This doesn’t meet WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.2.4 (captions live). We don’t plan to add captions to live video streams because live video is exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations. However, we will add captions when we embed an edited version of the video streams on our website.

Discover Uni

The colour contrast of the text on the Discover Uni statistics panels does not have sufficient colour contrast for visually impaired users. This doesn’t meet WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.4.3 (contrast (minimum)). Also, there is no way to control the animation within the Discover Uni panels. This doesn’t meet WCAG 2.1 success criterion 2.2.2 (pause, stop, hide). The Discover Uni panels are exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations. This is third-party content that is neither funded nor developed by us, nor under our control. 

Text in forms

Text within forms does not respond to text spacing. This doesn’t meet WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.4.12 (text spacing). The text styling within forms is exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations. This is third-party content that is neither funded nor developed by us nor under our control.