Accessibility Statement

We have endeavoured to make this site usable and fully accessible.

We would like all users to be able find the information they are looking for quickly and easily.

If you find a problem in using this site, please email helpdesk@Techdis.ac.uk.

Navigation Menus

There are two navigation menus that you will find throughout the site:

1. Main navigation
2. Section navigation

Main Navigation

This is the horizontal navigation that sits at the top of the page. This can be used to jump to the section of the website you wish to visit. To help you navigate each section, you will find a separate navigation to the left of the page.

Section Navigation

The section navigation can be found at the left of the page. For the majority of the pages this is true, except on the Home Page and the handful of pages that do not require further navigation.

Other Navigation Tools

Breadcrumb

A breadcrumb is provided to help users understand where they are in the website and also be able to trace their steps back.

Site Map and A to Z

We have included a site map to help you access all our pages. The A-Z facility (coming soon) includes all our web pages laid out in an easy to follow alphabetical list.

Skipping the Navigation

For those visitors who may benefit, we have provided a ‘skip to content' link at the top of each page. Please use this to skip the navigation menus on the page and jump straight to the page content.

Browser compatibility

This site has been designed to display in the following browsers under the stated operating systems:

Windows:

• Internet Explorer 8, 7 and 6
• Firefox 4.0, 3.5, 3 and 2
• Safari
• Opera
• Google Chrome

Apple Mac: 

• Safari
• Firefox

Usability of this Site

The JISC TechDis website offers the following usability and accessibility features to help users:

Return to the home page
To return to the homepage of the website, please click on the JISC TechDis logo (top left of the page).

Increasing the text size
The majority of this website has been designed to be legible at larger font sizes.

The two most common methods to increase the font size on our web-pages are:

1. Use the browser text-resize functionality
2. Use the accessibility tools built in to the website.

Use your browser’s text-resize functionality

Modern browsers allow you to change the size of the text should you want to. To do this, hold down the Control Button and press + or - to increase or decrease text size respectively. For browsers where this does not work, please refer to the browser's help documentation.

Use the accessibility tools built in to the website.

Please note: you must have javascript enabled to access this functionality.  For the website to remember your settings from page to page and visit to visit, you also need to have cookies enabled.

The built-in accessibility tools can be accessed by clicking the ‘accessibility’  link in the top right of each page. A panel will open to reveal options for changing the text size and page colour options.
Changing the page colour

There are several ways to change the colours of our web pages to make them more readable:

1. Use the browser/operating system options available.
2. Use the accessibility tools built in to the website.

Use the browser/operating system options available.

For more information on the options available, you may like to visit the BBC’s site; My Web My Way.

Use the accessibility tools built in to the website.

These instructions are the same as those for changing the web page’s colours provided above.

Please note: you must have javascript enabled to access this functionality.  For the website to remember your settings from page to page and visit to visit, you also need to have cookies enabled.

The built-in accessibility tools can be accessed by clicking the ‘accessibility’  link in the top right of each page. A panel will open to reveal options for changing the text size and page colour options.

Portable Document Format (PDF)

Adobe offer a free online conversion tool that will convert Adobe PDF files to text or an HTML page. For more information please go to the Online Conversions tools page of the Adobe website.

Further reading

Take a visit to the BBC's My Web My Way site to find out other accessibility options available to you.

Sending us Feedback

If you would like to draw our attention to any issues you are experiencing or any improvements you would like to see, please use our Contact Us form.