Accessibility

White Rose Libraries is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

This accessibility statement applies to the White Rose Libraries web pages at whiteroselibraries.org.

This website is run by White Rose Libraries, a library collaboration supported by the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:

• 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 (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)

We’ve also made the website text as simple as possible to understand. AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability.

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

• you cannot modify the line height or spacing of text
• you cannot change colours, contrast levels and fonts
• there is an empty link above the page header that forms part of the WordPress theme template
• some of our PDFs published before 23 September 2018 are not accessible

If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille:

• email libraries@whiterose.org

We’ll consider your request and get back to you in 5 working days.

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: libraries@whiterose.org. This will send this to Kate Petherbridge, White Rose Libraries Executive Manager, who is responsible for dealing with these reports.

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).

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

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

Non-compliance with accessibility regulations

• you cannot modify the line height or spacing of text
• you cannot change colours, contrast levels and fonts

PDFs and other documents

Some of our PDFs published before 23 September 2018 are not accessible. 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.

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

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared in November 2024 It was last reviewed in November 2024.

This website was last tested on 13 November 2024. The test was carried out by the White Rose Libraries.

We tested the whole site.