Library accessibility statement

AtoM

AtoM has not published an accessibility statement. However, it is committed to a coordinated community effort to help document AtoM's accessibility against known national, state/provincial, and international accessibility guidelines, standards, and best practices.

AtoM supports ARIA tags (to support screen readers) on all public user interface elements.

It also supports keyboard navigation, including in the full-width treeview and logged in users can enter alt-text values for digital objects.

In their version 2.3 release, they improved keyboard navigation and screen reader support, adding basic aria tags (for screen readers) throughout the public interface and making sure that alt-text is available wherever possible, as well as adding the keyboard navigation fixes for the search box and browse menus. The 2.5 release added a user-editable field in the Digital object metadata area to add alt-text for digital object uploads.

EPrints

EPrints has not provided us with an accessibility statement at this time.

The UWL Library Services team take accessibility very seriously and we want to provide an accessible experience to all of our students and staff. We will continue to work with E-Prints to improve the accessibility of their platform and provide a more accessible experience for our students and staff. We are working to meet the compliance as specified in The Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018. This applies to all of the websites, systems and content that Library Services is responsible for. We will address inaccessible content by enhancing staff training and making sure our staff are aware of digital accessibility best practice.

The EPrints team have been working on a number of improvements in the EPrints core to address some issues identified on public facing pages. These will be included in the next release (3.4.2). Our roadmap for future EPrints releases with specific reference to accessibility can be found on the EPrints website..                

Our work is focused on a vanilla installation of EPrints (we are working with 3.4.2 which is due for release very soon) and as such we work with ‘out of the box’ branding and configuration. The branding UWL applies to the EPrints repository is completely separate from this.  Our work does not extend to cover plugins which may be installed on your repository.  However, those that we do manage and update will be incorporated into our roadmap at a future point.

EPrints is not responsible for content uploaded to the UWL repository.

UWL Library Services commits to ensuring that files uploaded to the UWL repository meet standards under the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

Ebsco Discovery System

Read the full accessibility statement for EBSCOHost and EDS Classic.

EBSCO is committed to providing positive experiences for all users. Accessibility is a key consideration in all our product development strategies. Contact accessibility@ebsco.com with accessibility questions or Voluntary Product Accessibility Template® (VPAT®) requests.

Lib Guides

Springshare has not provided us with an accessibility statement at this time. 

Lib Guides is a service provided to us by Springshare and which we pay to access.  

The UWL Library Services team take accessibility very seriously and we want to provide an accessible experience to all of our students and staff. We will continue to work with Springshare to improve the accessibility of their platform and provide a more accessible experience for our students and staff. We are working to meet the compliance as specified in The Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018. This applies to all of the websites, systems and content that Library Services is responsible for. We will address inaccessible content by enhancing staff training and making sure our staff are aware of digital accessibility best practice.

Talis Reading Lists

Read the full accessibility statement for Talis Aspire and Talis Elevate

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

• change colours, contrast levels and fonts
• zoom in up to 200% 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, including:

• Make your mouse easier to use
• Use your keyboard instead of a mouse
• Talk to your device
• Make your device talk to you
• Make text larger
• Change your colours
• Magnify the screen

Box of Broadcasts

Read the full accessibility statement for Box of Broadcasts.

This accessibility statement applies to all Learning on Screen websites and online services developed by Learning on Screen with domain learningonscreen.ac.uk, including BoB (Box of Broadcasts) the On Demand service for Education.

This website is run by Learning on Screen, the British Universities and Colleges Film and Video Council. We are committed to making our websites and web-based information accessible for everyone. We aim to follow general principles of usability and universal design, which should help support all users. We are continuously working to improve the user experience and to apply the relevant accessibility standards.

This means that users should be able to do the following:

• Zoom up to 200% without impacting the functionality of the website
• Navigate most of the website using just a keyboard
• Listen to most of the website using a screen reader (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)
• Control the video player and interact with media with a keyboard

We have 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.