Accessibility statement

From Imperial College London

This statement applies to content published on innovation-portal.imperial.ac.uk

We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:

  • View the website on a range of devices with different screen sizes
  • Skip to main content links
  • Resize text as desired
  • Read text clearly due to use of appropriate colour contrast
  • Read video captions, transcriptions and audio descriptions where applicable
  • Use content types or features that have been optimised to meet accessibility such as accordions, slideshow/carousels, tables and tabs.

AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability.

How accessible the website is

Parts of this website are not fully accessible.

  • Some content links will link to a PDF hosted on an external website. These links with have ‘PDF’ in the link description.
  • Some decorative images do not have alternative text.

What we do about known issues

We work to achieve and maintain WCAG 2.1 AA standards, but it is not always possible for all our content to be accessible. Where content is not accessible, we will state a reason, warn users and offer alternatives.

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

Imperial College London is committed to making its website accessible in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard, due to the known issues listed below.

Non accessible content

The content that is not accessible is outlined below with details of:

  • WCAG 1.3.1, WCAG 4.1.2 Aria Hidden Focus, Both on Enterprise page and entrepreneurship pages, “Email me my results” part has a focusable element that is no longer part of the page, this may cause confusion for screen reader users.

  • WCAG 1.4.3 Colour contrast, Enterprise page “contact us” button has slightly lower colour contrast. The user must scroll down to the end of the page to locate this.

It is not possible for us to guarantee that the websites we link to are accessible.

We are aware of a number of PDFs linked to, from the portals which may not be accessible. If you require an alternative format for a PDF produced by Imperial Enterprise, please contact [email protected] .

Some documents and content are exempt from the regulations (such as live video content and PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018 if they’re not essential to providing our services), so we do not currently have any plans to make them accessible. But if you need to access information in one of these document types, you can contact us and ask for an alternative format.

Disproportionate burden

Not applicable

Reporting accessibility issues

If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille or if you find any accessibility issues not listed on this page then please contact [email protected].

We’ll consider your request and get back to you in one working week.

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).

How we test this website

This website is currently being tested for accessibility compliance on 15/12/2022, and these tests have been carried out internally.

We used Internal staff expertise and free accessibility tools when deciding on a sample of pages to test.

Last updated

This statement was prepared on 09/11/2022. It was last updated on 17/01/2023.