Accessibility Statement for Disability and Industrial Society

Swansea University Digital Humanities team is committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. We are continually improving the user experience for everyone, and applying the relevant accessibility standards.

Measures to support accessibility

Swansea University Digital Humanities team takes the following measures to ensure accessibility of Disability and Industrial Society:

Conformance status

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA. Disability and Industrial Society is partially conformant with WCAG 2.1 level AA. Partially conformant means that some parts of the content do not fully conform to the accessibility standard.

Feedback

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of Disability and Industrial Society. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers on Disability and Industrial Society:

We try to respond to feedback within 10 working days.

Technical specifications

Accessibility of Disability and Industrial Society relies on the following technologies to work with the particular combination of web browser and any assistive technologies or plugins installed on your computer:

These technologies are relied upon for conformance with the accessibility standards used.

Limitations and alternatives

Despite our best efforts to ensure accessibility of Disability and Industrial Society, there may be some limitations. Below is a description of known limitations, and potential solutions. Please contact us if you observe an issue not listed below.

Known limitations for Disability and Industrial Society:

  1. Elements must have sufficient colour contrast: Some text elements have lower than the recommended colour contrast because this is a legacy web site. We will consider how to update this static, legacy website. In the meantime, please contact us for support.

Assessment approach

Swansea University Digital Humanities team assessed the accessibility of Disability and Industrial Society by the following approaches:

Formal complaints

We’re always looking to improve the accessibility of this website. If you find any problems that aren’t listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, contact us by email at web-accessibility@swansea.ac.uk or by phone: +44 (0) 1792 20 5678. Please ask for the Web Team, and explain you are calling about the website https://dis-ind-soc.org.uk.

There is more information about Swansea University web accessibility, including contact details for our Disability Office and Transcription Centre, in our main Accessibility Statement.

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 are not happy with how we respond to your complaint, you can contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS).


This statement was created on 23 September 2020 using the W3C Accessibility Statement Generator Tool.