Accessibility Statement

This website is run by King's Digital Lab (KDL). 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, contrast levels 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 (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver).

We have 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.

How accessible this website is

We know some parts of this website are not fully accessible and you may encounter the following errors:

Image with no alt attribute (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 A standard);
Text area has no description (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 A standard);
Form elements are not grouped (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 A standard);
"Bold" tag used to format text (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 A standard);

What to do if you cannot access parts of this website

If you need information on this website in a different format, such as an accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille, please email kdl-info@kcl.ac.uk. We'll consider your request and get back to you in 15 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 are not happy with how we respond to your complaint, contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS).

Technical information about this website's accessibility

King’s Digital Lab is committed to making its websites accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018. If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we are not meeting accessibility requirements, please contact kdl-info@kcl.ac.uk.

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

Non accessible content

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

Non compliance with the accessibility regulations

On the Create page, the SiteImprove Accessibility Checker plugin throws several errors: “Image with no alt attribute” (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 A standard), “Text area has no description” (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 A standard), and “Form elements are not grouped” (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 A standard). Unfortunately, these issues cannot be resolved, because the code is generated by a third-party plug-in and we don’t have control over HTML.

In addition, on several other pages, the Accessibility Checker indicates that the “Bold" tag used to format text, expecting a semantic <strong> tag instead. The <b> tag is embedded through a Wagtail richtext editor and cannot be controlled, unless the Wagtail rich text editor is customised.

How we tested this website

This website was last tested on March, 3rd 2020. The test was carried out by King’s Digital Lab.

We tested:

‘Home’ page at https://sensingplace.org;
‘Create’ page at https://sensingplace.org/photos/create/;
‘About’ page at https://sensingplace.org/about/;
‘Meet the Team’ page at https://sensingplace.org/meet-team/;
‘Toolkit’ page at https://sensingplace.org/toolkit/;
‘Cookie Use’ page at https://sensingplace.org/cookie-use/;

We used Siteimprove Accessibility Checker plugin to assess compliance with WCAG.

This statement was prepared and last updated on 3 March 2020.

This page is based on the sample template provided by gov.uk.