Accessibility statement
This system is meant to be usable by everyone at the institute, including people who use a keyboard instead of a mouse, a screen reader, magnification, or a phone. The standard we work to is the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA.
What you can expect
- Pages are built from standard links, buttons and form controls so they work with a keyboard, and a Skip to main content link comes first. If you find a control you cannot reach, please tell us.
- Form fields are labelled for screen readers, including on the sign-in page, and the password can be shown while typing. Questions in course feedback and surveys are grouped, so each answer is read with its question.
- Error and confirmation messages are announced by screen readers as they appear.
- Pop-up panels take keyboard focus when they open, keep it inside them until they close, close with the Escape key, and return focus to where you were.
- In an online quiz the time left is announced at 10, 5, 2 and 1 minutes and at 30 seconds, without reading out every second.
- Students with an exam arrangement can be given extra time in timed online quizzes; the office sets it on the student's record, and the extra time is enforced like any other deadline.
- Pages are laid out to fit a phone's width; wide tables scroll sideways inside their own box instead of the whole page.
- Text can be enlarged in the browser without content being lost.
- Colour is not the only signal: statuses also carry words (for example "overdue", "removed", "to review").
What does not work well yet
- PDF documents produced by the system (transcripts, certificates, invoices) are not tagged for screen readers.
- The workflow guide's diagrams describe each step in text, but the diagrams themselves are pictures.
- Some older pages use the colour of a row or badge alongside its words; we are checking each against the contrast standard.
We are working through this list; this statement is updated when an item is fixed.
Reporting a problem
If something is hard or impossible to use, tell us what you were trying to do and on which page. Tell the office. If you need information from the system in another format, ask and the office will provide it.
Statement prepared 3 October 2026; last updated 3 October 2026.