Accessibility Statement for Ethics for Making

We commit to ensuring the communications we produce are clear and accessible to the widest range of people.

This website is run by the Research Office, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London (UAL). This accessibility statement applies to ethics.arts.ac.uk

Other websites and browser based systems on the arts.ac.uk domain have their own accessibility statements.

The website on the subdomain ethics.arts.ac.uk/wpx uses HTML 5 (HyperText Mark-up Language) and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) to render content. This website is built upon WordPress and uses an accessibility ready theme named Neve.

We commit to ensuring this website is as accessible as possible and we want as many people as possible to be able to use it. This means that you should be able to:

•         access the website regardless of the device and browser you are using

•         zoom in up to 300% without the text spilling off the screen

•         navigate most of the website using just a keyboard

•         listen to most of the website using a screen reader (including the most recent version of VoiceOver)

This is not applicable to the website on the subdomain ethics.arts.ac.uk/klynt which was constructed with other technologies, including the software Klynt (https://www.klynt.net/) and JavaScript on certain areas.

We have also tried to make the website text as easy to understand as possible although we recognise we have more work to do on this.

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

How accessible this website is

We know that some parts of the website are not fully accessible:

•         the Immersive Taster on the subdomain ethics.arts.ac.uk/klynt

Feedback and contact information

If you need information on this website in an alternative, more accessible format please contact the Research Office research@lcc.arts.ac.uk

Pleaseinclude details of the content you need and the required format or the service you are trying to access.

We aim to provide you with an initial response within two working days and will provide clear information about how we will deal with your request.

Reporting accessibility problems with this website

We’re always looking to improve the accessibility of this website. If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, contact: the Research Office research@lcc.arts.ac.uk

We aim to provide you with an initial response within two working days and will provide clear information about how we will deal with your enquiry or complaint.

If you feel we have not answered your enquiry or complaint satisfactorily, please contact us again. We will escalate your enquiry or complaint to the Digital Team at ualdigitalteam@arts.ac.uk

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

Contacting us by phone or visiting us in person

For information about contacting us by phone or to arrange a visit to our offices please visit the Contact page in the footer of the website.

London College of Communication is at:

Elephant & Castle, London, SE1 6SB

Reception telephone: +44 (0)20 7514 6500

Office hours: Monday – Friday, 9.30am – 4.30pm

Please note that access to our buildings may be restricted by Corona Virus Health and Safety mandates and you are advised to ring ahead of any visit.

More information about accessing our buildings is available from AccessAble.

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

UAL 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 version 2.1 AA standard, due to the non-compliances listed below.

Disproportionate burden

It has not been possible to ensure that the website on ethics.arts.ac.uk/klynt meets WCAG 2.1 (AA) at the current time because of the limitations of the Klynt software with which the interactivity in the “Immersive Taster” was implemented.

What we’re doing to improve accessibility

The landing page ethics.arts.ac.uk offers two paths of entry. The main site “Home” leads to ethics.arts.ac.uk/wpx which is fully compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard.

The “Immersive Taster” on ethics.arts.ac.uk/klynt acts as an introduction to the main site “Home” and can be re-directed to it anytime.

We have ensured that the content that is in the “Immersive Taster” site can be engaged with in an accessible form through the main site “Home”, therefore no content remains inaccessible.

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared on 24 July 2020. It was last reviewed on 12 October 2020.

This website was last tested on 24 July 2020. The test was carried out by the team.

We used the following automated accessibility tools, assistive technology and manual testing methods to test a sample of pages of our website. These included:

  • WAVE from WebAIM
  • Manually checking the WCAG 2.1. AA criteria
  • VoiceOver
  • Manually auditing the alt text of all images
  • Manually checking colour contrast of text

The selection of pages we tested were:

  • The landing page ethics.arts.ac.uk/
  • Most of the pages present on ethics.arts.ac.uk/wpx/