Accessibility Statement

This accessibility statement applies to Oriel College’s main website: www.oriel.ox.ac.uk, alumni website: www.alumni.oriel.ox.ac.uk and the website for the Centre for the Study of the Bible: www.centreforbible.oriel.ox.ac.uk.

This website is run by Oriel College. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:

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’ve 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.

In addition, major operating systems produce the following guidance:

How accessible this website is

We know some parts of this website are not fully accessible:

The virtual tour is not useable with keyboard only navigation, and the movement cannot be paused.

Most older PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software.

There are some accessibility issues when using the menu and search panel on the site using a screen reader or when navigating using a keyboard. Some button labels are incorrect or imprecise. We are working on a fix for these issues as a priority with our developers.

We are aware that some colours on the www.oriel.ox.ac.uk website and www.alumni.oriel.ox.ac.uk website are not high enough contrast to comply with accessibility requirements. We are working on a fix for these issues as a priority with our developers.

On some areas of the site, images are used as links without any alt text, for example the links to social media pages in the main footer of the website. We are working on a fix for these issues as a priority with our developers.

Some images on the site are missing alt text. We are working on a fix for these issues as a priority with our developers.

There are some minor issues with the labelling of buttons on carousels which make it more challenging for those using screen readers to navigate the site. We are working on a fix for these issues as a priority with our developers.

The site requires more and consistent identifiers to help users with screen readers identify what is a link and what is text. There are also some missing focus effects. We are working on a fix for these issues as a priority with our developers.

The iframes used on the site are not currently accessible to keyboard users. We are working on a fix for these issues as a priority with our developers.

Feedback and contact information

If you need information on this website in a different format please contact our Head of Communications:

Email: communications@oriel.ox.ac.uk

Call: 01865 276555

We’ll consider your request and get back to you within 7 working days.

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 Head of Communications by email or telephone:

Email: communications@oriel.ox.ac.uk

Call: 01865 276555

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

Some areas in College have audio induction loops, or if you contact us before your visit we may be able to arrange a British Sign Language (BSL) interpreter, although we cannot guarantee this.

Find out how to contact us.

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

Oriel College 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 launched on 31^st August 2022. Following a review of accessibility in December 2022, some accessibility issues have been identified and we are working with our developers to fix them as a matter of urgency.

Non-accessible content

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

Virtual tour

There is a virtual tour of Oriel College, which allows people to explore the college grounds if they are unable to visit.

The virtual tour cannot be paused, and is also not possible to navigate with keyboard only navigation. The fails WCAG 2.1 success criteria 2.2.2 (pause, stop, hide) and 2.1.1 (keyboard).

We are unable to fix this at this time, and ask anyone having difficulty accessing it to get in touch. We will explore options to fix this.

Content that’s not within the scope of the accessibility regulations

PDFs and other documents

Some of our PDFs and Word documents are essential to providing our services. For example, we have PDFs with information on how users can access our services, and forms published as Word documents.

The accessibility regulations do not require us to fix PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018 if they’re not essential to providing our services.

Any new PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards.

Prerecorded videos

Some of our videos are not audio described. This makes it difficult for people who are visually impaired to access all the information. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.2.5 (Audio description (Prerecorded).

The accessibility regulations do not require us to fix Prerecorded time-based media published before Septemeber 2020. However, we will endeavour to provide transcripts of some of the key videos on the site.

Any new videos we publish will meet accessibility standards.

Live video

We do not plan to add captions to live video streams because live video is exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations.

Third party platforms

We often create content which is hosted on third party platforms. This includes:

content we create for social media
video which we host on YouTube, SoundCloud or Vimeo
Publications on Issuu

We are responsible for ensuring the content we supply meets accessibility requirements; however, we are not responsible for the accessibility of the platform itself.

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was updated on 08/02/2023.

We used this approach to deciding on a sample of pages to test as per the guidance on gov.uk.