Accessibility Statements on Informatics Web Pages

It is a legal requirement for public sector websites to have a web accessibility statement. You must ensure that any webpages you publish within Informatics are accessible, and have an accessibility statement that is viewable and accurate. Ideally it would be linked to from every page to which it applies, eg in the footer.

Sample statement

The University suggests a statement like this:

Accessibility Statement Template.html (Rendered page)
Accessibility Statement.txt (Raw HTML)

That's based on the gov.uk sample accessibility statement.

There are exemptions for certain content/sites, roughly if it existed before 2019 and its content is not required for current University activities, ie teaching or business processes. More details on the Government web site - https://www.gov.uk/guidance/make-your-website-or-app-accessible-and-publ.... However the site still needs an accessibility statement saying why the site is exempt. Below is an example exemption template, that will need to be altered for the specific site it is used on.

Accessibility Statement Exempt Template.html (Rendered page)
Accessibility Statement Exempt Template.txt (Raw HTML)

Your site, your statement

Your site's statement needs to be based on how accessible your site is. Be honest about bits of your site that are not as accessible as they should be. Point them out, and have a plan to address them.

Ideally you would review every page of your site to check for accessibility issues, but you are allowed to check just a few representative pages. Your front page and the most-visited pages are a good start. Again, you mention this in the statement.

Tools

Tools like Webaim WAVE (https://wave.webaim.org/) and Google Chrome Lighthouse plugin (https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse) can help you evaluate the accessibility of your site, but are not fool proof.