The University of Oxford 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. Our Equality Policy outlines our commitment to a culture which ‘maintains a working, learning and social environment in which the rights and dignity of all its staff and students are respected’.
This accessibility statement applies to University of Oxford, Mind Behaviour Research Group (MBRG) https://mbrg.bsg.ox.ac.uk/
In order to ensure that all of our visitors can use our website, these pages aim to meet Level-AA standard of WCAG 2.1. This includes elements such as:
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Alt text for all images and providing non-visual alternatives where appropriate
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All essential audio-visual information is captioned, described as necessary or provided in alternative formats
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Content can be navigated with just a keyboard or speech recognition tools
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The website can be used with a screen reader
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Content is structured, ordered and labelled appropriately
Guidance is available for editors and moderators of this site to help them maintain accessibility standards.
AbilityNet has advice on making your devices easier to use if you have a disability. In addition, major operating systems produce the following guidance:
We are aware that some parts of our website are not fully accessible. These include:
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the text will not reflow in a single column when you change the size of the browser window
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you cannot modify the line height or spacing of text
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most older PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software
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live video streams do not have captions
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some of our online forms are difficult to navigate using just a keyboard
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you cannot skip to the main content when using a screen reader
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there’s a limit to how far you can magnify the map on our ‘contact us’ page
We are working to address areas where our accessibility needs improvement. Please see our ‘Known issues’ section for more details.
If you need information on this website in a different format, please contact the CSAE Communications Team at csae.communications@economics.ox.ac.uk
We will consider your request and get back to you within 14 days.
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 are not meeting accessibility requirements, contact csae.communications@economics.ox.ac.uk
If you’d like more information about accessibility and resources for students, staff and visitors in Oxford more generally, please visit our Equality and Diversity pages.
If you’re looking for information on building accessibility, please try the Access Guide or the University’s interactive map.
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).
Mind Behaviour Research Group (MBRG), University of Oxford is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.
This website is not compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard.
An audit is scheduled for November with a view for implementing the audit by the end of the year.
We want our website to offer the best experience possible for all of our users. In addition to our plan to fix known issues, we continue to work on website content and structure. We are working with our suppliers to fix issues and think about future developments. We are also updating the ways in which we provide training and best practice to those working on our website.
Some images do not have a text alternative, so people using a screen reader cannot access the information. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.1.1 (non-text content).
We plan to add text alternatives for all images by September 2020. When we publish new content we’ll make sure our use of images meets accessibility standards.
An audit is scheduled for November with a view for implementing the audit outputs by the end of the year.
There’s no way to skip the repeated content in the page header (for example, a ‘skip to main content’ option).
It’s not always possible to change the device orientation from horizontal to vertical without making it more difficult to view the content.
It’s not possible for users to change text size without some of the content overlapping.
Some of our interactive forms are difficult to navigate using a keyboard. For example, because some form controls are missing a ‘label’ tag.
Our forms are built and hosted through third party software and ‘skinned’ to look like our website.
An audit is scheduled for November with a view for implementing the audit outputs by the end of the year.
Third-party content
Our site includes third party content and functionality. This may direct you to a related service, link to another site or supporting documentation. We are not responsible for the accessibility of third-party content or to other sites we link to.
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YouTube or Vimeo videos
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Sound Cloud audio files
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Google maps
We will provide an accessible alternative to any third-party content that isn’t compliant.
Third party platforms
We often create content which is hosted on third party platforms. This includes:
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content we create for social media
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video which we host on YouTube, SoundCloud or Vimeo
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data we supply to national databases
We are responsible for ensuring the content we supply meets accessibility requirements; however, we are not responsible for the accessibility of the platform itself.
Documents (Word & PDF)
This site has a number of Word and PDF documents which were published before September 2018. This include many working papers or publications.
If you experience any difficulties accessing these documents, please email csae.communications@economics.ox.ac.uk and we will endeavour to source alternative formats, although this may not always be possible, for reasons outside of our control.
Live video
We do not plan to add captions to live video streams because live video is exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations.
We want to provide the best possible experience for all our website visitors. To achieve this we will:
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Fix known issues
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Check all new features for accessibility before they are made available
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Check all new content for accessibility
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Train all content editors on accessibility
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Carry out periodic accessibility checks