The University of Winchester site has been designed to be as accessible and inclusive to the widest range of audiences as possible. Our site has been designed to adhere to a range of web standards and guidelines and we are committed to meet at least AA compliance. We continually monitor the content to ensure it meets as high a standard as possible.
Site compliance
We make every effort to ensure our site conforms as much as possible to AA compliance. However, we cannot be held responsible for third party content which is held externally to our website and guarantee it conforms to the main standard of our site.
Browser compatibility
The website is accessible in:
- Internet Explorer 6+
- Mozilla Firefox 3+
- Opera 9+
- Google Chrome
- Safari 3.2+
Ensuring accessibility
Our website is built using a content management system and style sheets, this allows users to adjust the appearance of the page to suit their needs.
Editorial content
Our content has been written in line with our editorial guidelines and we make every effort to ensure it uses language appropriate to the subject matter. We have taken care to ensure content is written and produced with clear sub-headings, contextual links, links, to clearly signposted content on each web page.
Page display
Most modern browsers allow you to control the way pages are displayed and some will let you define a 'user style sheet' to have even more control over the way pages are displayed. The text size can be changed by altering the browser settings, this is usually done under ‘View > Text Size’.
Images
All the images have descriptions applied to describe what is on screen for audiences using assistive software.
Contact us
If you do encounter any issues using our site or you have any feedback and suggestions then please contact us and we’ll do our best to help you.