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About this website

Content

The site aims to provide helpful information about disability services available at UCL. Its main audience is likely to be current students of UCL, however there is also useful information for staff and potential students. Hopefully the site contains most of the information that you need, but if something is missing please let us know. Our email address is disability@ucl.ac.uk

Technical Details

This website complies to a number of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards which are listed below. Because of this, the site will not have the same layout in older browsers (such as Netscape 4) as it will in new standards compliant browsers such as Internet Explorer 6, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera 5.

Validation

The website has been validated against the following standards using a range of online tools:

  • XHTML 1.0 Transitional - The HTML has been structured to meet this standard. The W3C MarkUp Validation service was used to check against the standard. Please view the report for the home page
  • CSS2 - This site makes extensive use of cascading style sheets. The web page layout is controlled using CSS as well as colour and font information. Additionally there is a print style sheet that renders the page in a printable format. The W3C CSS Validator was used to check the style sheets against the CSS2 standard. Please view the report
  • WCAG Levels 1, 2, and 3 - The website has been validated against the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) using the Cynthia Says portal. Automated and manual checks (as suggested by the validator) have been carried out. For more information on the accessibility features on the site see below.

Accessibility

This site has a number of accessibility and assistive features on it. These include

  • Full adoption of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

  • Extensive use of style sheets to allow disabled users to access the content in different ways.

    • a print style sheet is included that strips the web page down to its textual content.
    • a style switcher allows users to change the background colour and font properties on the web page
    • we are also looking into the feasibility of including aural style sheets which specify how a web page will sound to users audio browsers.