Accessibility
The University of Surrey is committed to making the information and resources on its website accessible to all users. We aim to follow internationally accepted web standards that give members of the public and members of the University community full access to information on our site.
The Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) has produced guidelines for making web content accessible.
If you have any difficulty in accessing the content of this site, please contact the Web Support team and we will provide assistance: web-support@surrey.ac.uk.
What we’re doing to improve accessibility
We are working to fix the issue of non-descriptive links, but as this is something that will need to be done by content editors checking and reviewing the many thousands of pages on the site, this work will take at least until the end of 2022.
The Digital Content team will be educating content editors and owners on accessibility compliance where their actions can cause non-compliance.
In addition, we aspire to move to a new web publishing model where content will be checked for accessibility compliance before being published to the live site.
We are working with content owners to ensure video content that is not yet properly captioned (or has an audio description) is either updated with captions or removed from the site. This work will be ongoing until the end of 2022.
We are working with content owners to ensure PDFs that are not yet accessible are properly marked up or made into accessible web pages. However, due to the large number of PDFs on our website, we will begin by ensuring our most-viewed PDFs essential to providing our services are accessible. This work will be ongoing until the end of 2022. We will then continue to work on making the remaining PDFs that fall within the scope of the accessibility regulations, accessible.
Preparation of this accessibility statement
This statement was first prepared on 21 September 2020. It was last reviewed on 13 June 2022.
This website was tested in July 2020. The test was carried out by the Digital Accessibility Centre.
The pages tested were chosen to test as full a range of CMS components and content types as possible.
With most issues identified in the report now resolved, we sought a retest from the Digital Accessibility Centre in May 2022 to validate the fixes.
The first part of the most recent audit by Digital Accessibility Centre was received on 1 June 2022, once we have fully reviewed this audit, we will update our accessibility statement. We will then plan the work that will address any issues found in the audit and this will be ongoing until the end of 2022.