Website Accessibility Statement
Web site accessibility for disabled users is now enshrined in UK law under the SENDA (Special Educational Needs and Disability Act, Disability Discrimination Act Part 4) legislation of 2001. Under the terms of this act it is illegal for a higher education institution to treat people with disabilities less favourably or to fail to make reasonable adjustments to meet their needs.
The Mathematical Institute strives to make all of its electronic resources as accessible as possible to all of our users, regardless of their particular circumstances. If you find any problems in accessing information from our site, please contact the webmaster [-at-] maths [dot] ox [dot] ac [dot] uk (Webmaster).
The main site was imported into a content management system (drupal) in the summer of 2007 which aims to ensure good accessibility.
Site Navigation
The left of each page contains a navigation panel
Near the top of the page under the main banner there is a `breadcrumb trail' showing where you are within the main logical structure of the site and links to climb back up through the levels of the site.
At the top right of every page is a search box in which to type a general search query. The search uses google.
Site Presentation
Page layout
This site does not use frame to organise the layout of the pages. Layout tables are only used sparingly.
Each page has a navigation panel at the left as explained above.
At the foot of every page is information stating when the page was last update, by whom and an email address to contact if necessary. Below this is a link to this site accessibility statement.
Fonts
Presentation of the site content is achieved by using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). We use relative font sizes to allow the end user control over site text size. The choice of font for the main text is typically left to the individual via their browser defaults.
Images
Images used in this site should include descriptive ALT attributes. Where decorative graphics are used these include null ALT attributes instead.
Underlining and links
Links are typically underlined so as to be immediately
visible. Underlining of other text is discouraged in favour of other forms of
emphasis such em and strong tags.
Language
All pages should explicitly declare the default language using a
lang attribute in the html tag. If some parts of a
page are in another language then the lang attribute of that
element should be appropriately set.
HTML Version
The majority of the site is written in HTML 4.0.
Bookmarks
The title element of each page is in a reverse breadcrumb style, i.e. it contains the title of the page and all logical elements above it. All page titles should therefore be unique and meaningful when viewed out of context such as in a bookmarks list.
Non HTML formats
Where links are to non HTML documents this is typically indicated in the text or link name. Such documents are typically PDF or Postscript files. When generating such files we try to make sure they are viewable in all viewers. If you experience a problem with a specific document please let us know and we will try to rectify it.