Accessibility Policy Statement and Standards Compliance

 

This website is run by Royal College of Art. 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.

 

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 ptru-hhcd@rca.ac.uk.

 

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).

 

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

PDFs and other documents

Many of the documents in our RESOURCES page and linked to through Network profiles may not meet accessibility standards. The RCA is not responsible for content provided by other organisations but featured on TINKLE. For RCA publications that do not meet accessibility standards, please notify us via ptru-hhcd@rca.ac.uk

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.

 

How we tested this website

This website was last tested on 10th May 2020. The test was carried out by RCA staff using WAVE Online Web Accessibility Evaluation tool (https://wave.webaim.org). WAVE is a suite of evaluation tools that helps authors make their web content more accessible. WAVE can identify many accessibility and Web Content Accessibility Guideline (WCAG) errors, but also facilitates human evaluation of web content.