Accessibility Statement
Our conformance claim for this site
The University of Huddersfield is committed to providing an accessible web presence that gives members of the public and members of the University community full access to University information, courses and activities offered publicly through the web.
All pages should validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict. The templates use Cascading Style Sheets. These pages meet the checkpoints of the Web Accessibility Initiative's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0, as specified by the University of Huddersfield Web Accessibility Policy to Level-AA standards, and most pages on this website conform to the AAA standard.
The University is currently re-evaluating the accessibility of this website with regards to WCAG 2.0.
Information in alternative formats
If you require information contained on our website in an alternative format please contact: hudsweb@hud.ac.uk
Making changes to your operating system
- Advice from the BBC showing users how to make full use of accessibility settings in browsers and operating systems.
- Advice for Microsoft users
- Advice for Apple users
- Advice for Linux users
Images
A description of every image is provided, either in the alt text or on the page itself.
Links
We try to ensure that link text makes sense out of context and that it accurately describes the pages it points to. You can use the tab key on your keyboard (as well as your mouse) to move from consecutive link to link.
PDF files
Some of the information on our website is in Portable Document Format (PDF). You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to read PDF files. Adobe Acrobat Reader can be downloaded free of charge from the Adobe website. Later versions of this software provide a number of features that improve access for users.