Accessibility Statement

Accessibility statement for ppu.mrc.ac.uk

This accessibility statement applies to the website ppu.mrc.ac.uk.

This website is run by the Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit. 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, with the exception of any data tables
  • Understand video content without audio due to use of captions, or a provided transcript
  • Listen to most of the website using a screen reader
  • Access most of the website using only a keyboard

How accessible this website is

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

  • Not all of the website is listenable using a screen reader
  • Not all of the website is navigable using only a keyboard
  • Not all of the website is navigable using speech recognition software
  • You cannot modify the line height or spacing of text
  • You cannot change colours, contrast levels and fonts
  • Difficulties accessing PDF documents using screen reader software

Feedback and contact information

If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille:

email a.z.davies@dundee.ac.uk

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

If you cannot view the map on our ‘contact us’ page, call or email us using the details at https://www.ppu.mrc.ac.uk/contact-us for directions.

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: us by email at a.z.davies@dundee.ac.uk.

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

Find out how to contact us https://www.ppu.mrc.ac.uk/contact-us.

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

The Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit 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 is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard, due to the non-compliances listed below.

  • 1.3.1 – Info and Relationships Some of our content has issues with logical structure, notably with tab stops. We plan to correct this by October 2020.
  • 2.1.1 – Keyboard – Some of our content is not accessibly solely using a keyboard. We plan to correct this by October 2020.
  • 2.4.3 – Focus Order – Some of our content has issues with logical focus ordering, notably with tab stops. We plan to correct this by October 2020.
  • 1.4.3 – Contrast (Minimum) – The contrast ratios with some of our background design choices and text do not meet the required ratio of at least 4.5:1. We plan to correct this by October 2020.

Disproportionate burden

We currently have no accessibility problems that we believe would be a disproportionate burden to fix

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

We currently have no accessibility problems that we believe are not within the scope of the accessibility regulations.

What we’re doing to improve accessibility

We hope to address our navigation and screen reader/speech recognition accessibility within the coming weeks.

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared on 29/09/2020. It was last reviewed on 29/09/2020.

This website was last tested on 29/09/2020. The test was carried out by Andrew Davies of the Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit.

We used this approach to deciding on a sample of pages to test -

We choose the most active pages as samples and we tested using the following resources:

  • Wave Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool

https://wave.webaim.org/

  • Accessibility Insights for Web

https://accessibilityinsights.io/

  • Developer Tools extension for Firefox

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/web-developer/

  • Nu Html Checker

https://validator.w3.org/nu/

These tools were used to identify accesibility issues that were programmatic or design based with the website

  • Funkify - Disability Simulator

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/funkify-%E2%80%93-disability-simu/ojcijjdchelkddboickefhnbdpeajdjg?hl=en

This tool was used to identify issues with design with visual disabilities.