Accessibility on Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society website

This statement applies to content published on centrewildfires.org

We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website.

AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability.

How accessible the website is

Parts of this website are not fully accessible. This is because:

  • some pages have poor colour contrast

What we do about known issues

We work to achieve and maintain WCAG 2.1 AA standards, but it is not always possible for all our content to be accessible. Where content is not accessible, we will state a reason, warn users and offer alternatives.

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

Imperial College London 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 partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard, due to the known issues listed below.

Non accessible content

The site does not meet accessibility standards for the reasons detailed in the next section).

Some documents and content are exempt from the regulations (such as live video content and PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018 if they’re not essential to providing our services), so we do not currently have any plans to make them accessible. But if you need to access information in one of these document types, you can contact us and ask for an alternative format.

Non compliance with the accessibility regulations

Colour contrast issues on (i) Twitter feed (ii) Map. This fails the WCAG 2.1 AA Contrast Ratio Threshold. We are taking steps to fix this non-compliance.

Disproportionate burden

Not applicable

Reporting accessibility issues

If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille or if you find any accessibility issues not listed on this page then please contact wildfire@imperial.ac.uk

We’ll consider your request and get back to you in 14 days

Enforcement procedure

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).

How we test this website

This website was last tested for accessibility compliance on 28 Sept 2020 and these tests have been carried out internally.

Last updated

This statement was prepared on 12th October 2020. It was last updated on 12th October 2020.

Leadership Team