Accessibility Statement

This accessibility statement applies to aub.ac.uk, run by Arts University Bournemouth.

We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. We've made a concerted effort to:

• Allow you to zoom up to 300% without text falling off the screen
• Allow you to navigate the website with just your keyboard
• Allow you to navigate the website using speech recognition software and to listen to most of the website using a screen reader.
• Honour your browser and settings for colours, contrast levels and fonts
• Honour your device preferences about reducing motion (for example: disabling animation and auto-playing video)

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

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

• Content stored in PDF documents may not be accessible to screen reader software
• Videos, particularly live videos, may not have closed captions
• Some pages may not conform to our efforts listed above
• Some embeds for 3D panoramas and walkthroughs of student accomodation aren’t accessible

We make continuous efforts to improve accessibility on the website and your feedback is invaluable to helping us improve the website for all users. If you find a problem, or think that we’re not meeting accessibility requirements or standards please email us on web@aub.ac.uk.

If you need information on this website in an alternate format, such as large-print, easy read, audio-recording or braille please email us on web@aub.ac.uk.

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).

Arts University Bournemouth is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard. The non-compliances are listed below.

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

Aim for large interactive controls

We are aware of the site footer having elements that are too close together for some users and we are iterating on the design to improve this throughout 2024.

This will be completed in 2024

Google Maps

Our website at large does provide alternative text for all images (WCAG A 1.1.1) but Google Maps’ interface doesn’t pass this requirement.

We are continuously working to improve accessibility on our website and have published a roadmap of the upcoming changes at https://public.3.basecamp.com/p/XxUUtQvUqroKDiCEziDMZ9hv

This statement was prepared on 21 September 2022. It was last reviewed on 21 September 2022.

This website was last tested on 9 September 2022. The test was carried out by Silktide.

We used this approach to deciding on a sample of pages to test (see below).

We use Silktide to measure website accessibility. They scan 4500 random pages of our website to provide a wide-ranging sample of pages that cover home page, course pages, search pages, news, and more niche parts of the website to ensure wide coverage of the website.