Accessibility

The University of Portsmouth Students' Union is committed to increasing the accessibility of information to all users, including visitors with visual or motor impairments. This statement outlines our activities and achievements so far in increasing accessibility.

Should you encounter any problems in accessing these pages, or you would like to suggest improvements, please contact webmaster@upsu.net

Standards compliance

Our aim is for all pages within the domain www.upsu.net to comply with priority 1 and 2 guidelines of the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

We are striving towards validating all pages as XHTML 1.0 Transitional, whilst using structured semantic markup, with CSS 2.1 for page design.

The use of tables for non-tabular information is being phased out, however some may remain in the transitional period of changeover from the old website to new one.

Access keys

Nearly all modern browsers support jumping to key links by typing keys defined on the web site. On Windows, this is done by pressing ALT + an access key, on Macintosh, press Control + an access key.

UPSU.net uses the UK Government standard access keys:

• 1 - links to the UPSU.net Homepage
• 3 - links to the A-Z of UPSU.net
• 6 - links to this Help page
• 7 - links to the privacy policy
• 9 - links to the Contact Us page
• 0 - links to details about access keys

Text resizing

The text on this website is built to resize in order to be as flexible as possible to users with different needs. Text can be increased or decreased from your browser tool bar, or on Windows, if you have a mouse with a scroll wheel, you can hold down ALT and scroll the wheel backwards or forwards to alter the text size, alternatively press ctrl and + or - to zoom into the page (ctrl+0 resets to the original size).

Exceptions

Within these pages there are links to external sites that are not part of the www.upsu.net domain. The University of Portsmouth Students' Union cannot guarantee the level of compliance of these external pages.

We are currently undertaking a project to increase the accessibility of all our pages. At this moment in time some of our pages have not been improved and are therefore not as accessible as we would like.

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