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Table of Contents

• Accessibility statement for University of Hertfordshire Research Archive
  • How accessible University of Hertfordshire Research Archive is
  • What to do if you cannot access parts of University of Hertfordshire Research Archive
  • Reporting accessibility problems with University of Hertfordshire Research Archive
  • Enforcement procedure
• Technical information about University of Hertfordshire Research Archive's accessibility
• Non accessible content
  • Non compliance with the accessibility regulations
  • Disproportionate burden
  • Content that is not within the scope of the accessibility regulations
• How we tested University of Hertfordshire Research Archive
• What we’re doing to improve accessibility

Accessibility statement for University of Hertfordshire Research Archive

University of Hertfordshire Research Archive is run by University of Hertfordshire. We want as many people as possible to be able to use University of Hertfordshire Research Archive. For example, that means you should be able to:

• change colours, contrast levels and fonts
• zoom in up to 300% 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, NVDA and VoiceOver)

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

AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability.

How accessible University of Hertfordshire Research Archive is

We know some parts of University of Hertfordshire Research Archive are not fully accessible:

• most older PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software

What to do if you cannot access parts of University of Hertfordshire Research Archive

• call [contact number]

We will consider your request and get back to you in [number] days.

Reporting accessibility problems with University of Hertfordshire Research Archive

We're always looking to improve the accessibility of University of Hertfordshire Research Archive. If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we are not meeting accessibility requirements, please contact [responsible person/team]: [reports contact email].

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 2.28 (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 University of Hertfordshire Research Archive's accessibility

University of Hertfordshire is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2.28.

Compliance status

University of Hertfordshire Research Archive is not compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.2 AA standard. The non-accessible sections are listed below.

Non accessible content

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

Disproportionate burden

Content that is not within the scope of the accessibility regulations

PDFs and other documents

As University of Hertfordshire Research Archive is an open access research repository, the principal content made available to users are research outputs such as articles, papers, posters and reports, many of which are PDF documents. Many PDF documents, especially older ones, are not fully accessible to screen reader software and do not contain other common accessibility features. In particular:

• many documents, especially older ones, do not conform to the PDF/A archiving format.
• many lack bookmarks or document titles, therefore failing to meet WCAG 2.2 success criteria 2.4.5 and 2.4.2.
• many discuss scientific or scholarly concepts that may be abbreviated with no mechanism for discovering the meaning of the abbreviations, or unusual words arising from scholarly discourse without definitions. These issues each fail WCAG 2.2 criteria 3.1.5, 3.1.4, and 3.1.2 respectively.
• there may be some documents that fail to specify their human language, thereby failing WCAG 2.2 success criterion 3.1.1.
• many documents may not reflow satisfactorily. This fails WCAG 2.2 success criterion 1.4.10.

PDFs and other documents added after 23 September 2.29 may be user provided and therefore not fully accessible. University of Hertfordshire Research Archive has a review process that should identify these before they are made available for download. If this is not the case please contact [responsible person/team]: [reports contact email].

General issues

How we tested University of Hertfordshire Research Archive

University of Hertfordshire Research Archive was last comprehensively tested on 19 May 2023. You can read the comprehensive report.

What we’re doing to improve accessibility

Our accessibility roadmap shows how and when we plan to improve accessibility on University of Hertfordshire Research Archive.

This statement was first prepared on 2 December 2019. It was last updated on [date].