Accessibility statement for the University of Edinburgh, School of Biological Sciences websites

This accessibility statement applies to websites in the domain "bio.ed.ac.uk"

This website is run by the University of Edinburgh, School of Biological Sciences. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:

We’ve also made the website text as simple as possible to understand.

With a few simple steps you can customise the appearance of our website using your browser settings to make it easier to read and navigate:

Additional information on how to customise our website appearance

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

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How accessible this website is

We know some parts of this website are not fully accessible:

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:

We’ll consider your request and get back to you in 10 working 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’re not meeting accessibility requirements, contact:

We’ll respond as soon as possible, but this will be no more than 10 working 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).

Contacting us by phone or visiting us in person

British Sign Language service

contactSCOTLAND-BSL runs a service for British Sign Language users and all of Scotland’s public bodies using video relay. This enables sign language users to contact public bodies and vice versa. The service operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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Technical information about this website’s accessibility

The University of Edinburgh, School of Biological Sciences is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

Compliance status

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard, due to the non-compliances listed below.

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1

Non-accessible content

The content listed below is non-accessible for the following reasons.

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations

We aim to improve our websites accessibility on a regular and continuous basis. See the section below ('What we're doing to improve accessibility') on how we are improving our site accessibility.

Disproportionate burden

We are not currently claiming that any accessibility problems would be a disproportionate burden to fix.

Content that’s not within the scope of the accessibility regulations

PDFs and other documents

Some of our PDFs and Word documents are essential to providing our services. For example, we have PDFs with information on how users can access our services, and forms published as Word documents. By September 2020, we plan to either fix these or replace them with accessible HTML pages.

The accessibility regulations do not require us to fix PDFs or other documents published before September 2018 if they’re not essential to providing our services. For example, we do not plan to fix PDFs of Research papers published before 23rd September 2018.

Accessibility regulations

Any new PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards.

Archived websites

Our archived websites are not needed for services our organisation provides, and they are not updated.

What we’re doing to improve Accessibility

Measures from the University of Edinburgh which support the improvement of Accessibility within the School of Biological Sciences:

In addition to the above measure, The School of Biological Sciences:

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared on 19th August 2021. It was last reviewed on 3rd June 2022.

This website was last tested in May 2022. The test was carried out by the School of Biological Sciences website review team.

We used this approach to deciding on a sample of pages to test:

Testing approach

Accessibility statement