Accessibility policy
This accessibility statement applies to the official website of Lady Margaret Hall, with addresses beginning with lmh.ox.ac.uk.
The website is run internally by the LMH Communications Office. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:
- change colours and fonts
- zoom in up to 300% without the text spilling off the screen
- navigate most of the website using just a keyboard
- navigate most of the website using speech recognition software
- listen to most of the website using a screen reader
AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability.
How accessible this website is:
- you cannot skip to the main content when using a screen reader
- most PDF documents are not accessible to screen reader software
- some multimedia content doesn’t yet have audio or text description
Feedback and contact information
If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille:
- email: communications@lmh.ox.ac.uk
- call: 07815 699015
We’ll consider your request and get back to you in 14 working days.
If you cannot view the map on our ‘contact us’ page, call us on 01865 274300 or email us at enquiries@lmh.ox.ac.uk for directions.
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’re not meeting accessibility requirements, contact our Head of Communications by emailing communications@lmh.ox.ac.uk or calling 07815 699015.
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).
Technical information about this website’s accessibility
Compliance status
Lady Margaret Hall is committed to making its website accessible. We follow the guidelines set out in the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018. As part of this commitment, we are required to publish known issues with our website. The www.lmh.ox.ac.uk website aims at meeting the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard.
Non-accessible content
Content that’s not within the scope of the accessibility regulations
- The accessibility regulations do not require us to fix PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018 if they’re not essential to providing our services. Some of our PDFs and Word documents are essential to providing our services. We have PDFs with college regulations and statutes which can be classified as essential to providing our services. Any new PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards.
- Some of our pre-recorded videos are not audio described. This makes it difficult for people who are visually impaired to access all the information. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.2.5 (Audio description (Prerecorded). The accessibility regulations do not require us to fix Prerecorded time-based media published before September 2020. [However, we will endeavour to provide transcripts of some of the key videos on the site. Any new videos we publish will meet accessibility standards.]
- We do not plan to add captions to live video streams because live video is exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations.
- Some link text doesn’t make sense when read on its own (for example, ‘Find out more’) (WCAG 2.1 2.4.4 and 2.4.9).
Third party content
We often create content which is hosted on third party platforms. This includes:
- content we create for social media
- video we host on YouTube
- Publications on FlipHTML5
We are responsible for ensuring the content we supply meets accessibility requirements; however, we are not responsible for the accessibility of the platforms themselves. We are not responsible for the accessibility of third party content or to other sites we link to.
How we tested this website
This website was last tested over the month of August 2020. The test was carried out by Agile Collective, using quality assurance tools as well as a manual check of a substantial number of sample of pages as per the guidance on gov.uk.
This statement was prepared in September 2020.