
Oxford University Press is committed to ensuring that its websites are accessible to the widest possible audience, including individuals with disabilities. We aim to be standards compliant and follow general principles of usability and universal design, which should help all visitors to this website.
Accessible design
Many websites contain significant barriers to access by not considering disabled
users in the design phase. The Oxford Education site has followed a number
of key guidelines, particularly the Web
Content Accessibility Guidelines, to ensure that this website is accessible
as possible. Use has also been made of techniques to help users of assistive
and adaptive technology, with our aim being to provide one version of the site
which everyone should be able to use. Features to help in this aim include:
Standards compliance
This Oxford Education website is intended to meet at least level 2 (AA) of the
W3C's Website Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Guidlines. For more information
about the WAI Guidelines please see: Web
Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (external website).
We have also aimed to make all our pages validate as XHTML 1.0, transitional
DTD, as specificed at http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/.
They should also comply with CSS 2, as specified at http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-CSS2-19980512/.
By meeting these standards we hope to make our site as inclusive as possible,
and also to comply with UK legislation including the Disability Discrimination
Act (1995) as amended by the Special Education Needs and Disability Act (2001),
which states that it is an offence to discriminate against a disabled person
by treating him or her less favourably than others for a reason relating to
their disability.
Website help
For further details and assistance with other aspects of using this site, please
see our website help page.
This will assist you with activities such as searching on the site, adjusting
text size and printing pages and other resources. We intend to continue improving
our accessibility, so if you have any difficulty accessing this site and require
further help, or if you have any suggestions to help improve our accessibility,
please use our feedback
form.
Feedback
Whilst we have made our best efforts to make our website as accessible as possible,
if you encounter any difficulties when using the Oxford Education website please
complete our online
contact form. The accessibility feedback we receive through this form will
help us to improve our site and plan future development work. We are always
open to suggestions on how we might improve the accessibility of our site, so
please pass on any thoughts or comments to us.