Accessibility

It is important you make your website content as accessible as possible to enable everyone to engage with the information you provide. Online experiences can vary hugely, and be impacted by visual conditions, conditions affecting motor skills, auditory difficulties and cognitive function.

Making Mosaic websites accessible is a shared responsibility between the Oxford Mosaic platform team, who manage all code-related accessibility issues; and website owners and editors, who are responsible for ensuring that content published on their website meets Level-AA standard of WCAG 2.1.

As well as the Oxford Mosaic toolkit, which includes features to help editors make websites accessible — such as colour contrast checking, the University provides guidance to help website owners and content creators ensure their websites meet accessibility standards:

• Accessibility statement of the main University website. States the accessibility aims that all University websites — in particular those with web addresses in the ox.ac.uk domain — are expected to meet
• Article about Accessibility on Mosaic websites. Outlines what the Mosaic service is doing to ensure websites work for everyone, including an audit of the platform code and platform accessibility statement
• UAS Communications' guidance on Digital Accessibility. Provides a wealth of accessibility guidance, including:
  • an overview of general good-practice in making information accessible
  • detailed guidance on Web Accessibility and how assess the accessibility of your content
  • guidance for creating accessible documents
• WebAIM Quick Reference: Testing Web Content for Accessibility. A handy reference for approaching accessibility testing on your web content

Making images accessible

• WebAIM guidance on Alternative Text for images
• W3C Alt Text decision tree. Part of W3C's Web Accessibility Tutorials on Images
• WebAIM advice on Title Text for images

Digital Accessibility Working Group

The University has formed the Digital Accessibility Working Group to engage relevant staff across the University on digital accessibility. This is chaired by the Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Advocate for Equality and Diversity, Rebecca Surender.

For more information about the Digital Accessibility Working Group, contact your local communications team or email digicomms@admin.ox.ac.uk.