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Accessibility

This accessibility statement applies to the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies website at https://www.ochjs.ac.uk

This website is run by the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:

  • change colours, contrast levels and fonts
  • zoom in up to 300% without the text spilling off the screen
  • navigate most of the website using just a keyboard
  • navigate most of the website using speech recognition software
  • listen to most of the website using a screen reader (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)

We’ve also made the website text as simple as possible to understand.

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

How Accessible This Website Is

We know some parts of this website are not fully accessible:

  • some of our PDF and Word documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software

Feedback and Contact Information

If you need information on this website in a different format—such as accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille—email enquiries@ochjs.ac.uk.

We’ll consider your request and aim to get back to you within 20 working days.

Reporting Accessibility Problems with This wWebsite

We’re always looking to improve the accessibility of this website. If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, contact the Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies by emailing enquiries@ochjs.ac.uk.

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).

Technical Information About This Website’s Accessibility

The Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

Compliance Status

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard, due to the ‘non-compliances’ listed below.

Non-Accessible Content

The content listed below is non-accessible for the following reasons:

Non-Compliance with the Accessibility Regulations

  • Some PDF and Word documents aren’t accessible to screen reader software. This doesn’t meet WCAG 2.1 success criterion 4.1.2 (name, role value). Those which don’t currently have full text alternatives on this website will do by the end of September 2024. The accessibility regulations do not require us to fix PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018 if they’re not essential to providing our services.

Preparation of This Accessibility Statement

This statement was prepared on 1 November 2023. It was last reviewed on 1 November 2023.

This website was last tested on 27 October 2023. The test was carried out by Eye Division.

The approach we took was to test every non-standard page (namely the homepage, the section homepages and all pages containing forms or tables) and then a sample of 2 further pages from each section.

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