Accessibility statement

This accessibility statement applies to the website http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/ppapapan/.

This website is run by Petros Papapanagiotou and hosted by the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:

• change colours, contrast levels and fonts
• zoom in up to 200% without the text spilling off the screen
• navigate most of the website using just a keyboard
• navigate most of the website using speech recognition software
• listen to most of the website using a screen reader (including the most recent versions of JAWS (Job Access with Speech), NVDA (NonVisual Desktop Access) and VoiceOver).

We have also made the website text as simple as possible to understand.

Customising the website

AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability. This is an external site with suggestions to make your computer more accessible.

AbilityNet - My computer my way

With a few simple steps you can customise the appearance of our website to make it easier to read and navigate.

Addtional information on how to customise our website appearance

If you are a member of University staff or a student, you can use the free SensusAccess accessible document conversion service:

Information on accessible document conversion service - SensusAccess

How accessible this website is

We know some parts of this website are not fully accessible:

• the text will sometimes not reflow in a single column or may overflow when you change the size of the browser window
• some images are only briefly described in text format

Feedback and contact information

If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille:

• email pe.p@ed.ac.uk
• call +44 131 650 2957

We will consider your request and get back to you within 5 working days.

Reporting accessibility problems with this website

We are always looking to improve the accessibility of this website. If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we are not meeting accessibility requirements, contact Petros Papapanagiotou:

• email pe.p@ed.ac.uk
• call +44 131 650 2957

We will try and respond as quickly as possible but this will be no more than 5 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 are not happy with how we respond to your complaint, contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS).

The government has produced information on how to report accessibility issues:

Reporting an accessibility problem on a public sector website

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

The Univeristy of Edinburgh 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

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 AA standard, due to the non-compliances listed below.

The full guidelines are available at:

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1

Non accessible content

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

Noncompliance with the accessibility regulations

The following items do not comply with the WCAG 2.1 AA success criteria

• Most tooltips disappear as soon as the cursor moves. Also tooltips are not always present for all icons and images.

  • 1.4.13 - Content on Hover or Focus

• There may not be sufficient colour contrast between font and background colours especially where the text size is very small.

  • 1.4.3 - Contrast (Minimum)

• Visual information to identify user interface components, such as keyboard focus, do not always have a sufficient contrast ratio

  • 1.4.11 - Non-text contrast

• Not all prerecorded audio-only or video-only media will have alternative media that presents equivalent information e.g. audio track with description of the action in a video with no sound

  • 1.2.1 - Audio-only and Video-only (Prerecorded)

• Not all video will have subtitles or subtitles that identify all speakers as well as noting other significant sounds e.g. laughter

  • 1.2.2 - Captions (Prerecorded)

• Not all our PDF’s and Word documents meet accessibility standards.

  • 1.1.1 - Non-text Content

  • 2.4.5 - Multiple Ways

  • 1.3.2 - Meaningful Sequence

  • 1.4.5 - Images of Text

We aim to improve our websites accessibility on a regular and continuous basis. See the section below (‘What we’re doing to improve accessibility’) on how we are improving our site accessibility.

Disproportionate burden

We are not currently claiming that any accessibility problems would be a
disproportionate burden to fix.

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

PDFs and other documents

Many of our older PDFs and Word documents do not meet accessibility standards - for example, they may not be structured so they’re accessible to a screen reader. This does not meet WCAG 2.1 success criterion 4.1.2 (name, role value).

WCAG 2.1 success criterion 4.1.2 (name, role value)

None of the PDFs and Word documents are essential to providing our
services.

What we are doing to improve accessibility

We review and manually test the website for accessibility issues on every update. We follow the training, support, and guidance provided by the University of Edinburgh to increase understanding of related issues and ways to address them.

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared on 28 October 2020. It was last reviewed on 28 October 2020.

This website was last tested in October 2020. The test was carried out manually by myself.

We manually reviewed all the pages and content in this webpage.