University of Ballarat > Accessibility

Statement of Web accessibility

Our commitment

We are committed to providing a website that is as accessible as possible to all of our users. If you have any questions or suggestions regarding the accessibility of this site, please contact us.

We take our obligations under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 seriously. To this end, we have adopted the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 as the benchmark for our website. We aim to achieve WCAG 2.0 - AA compliance across the site.

We try to do this by:

  • using standardised designs and templates that have been tested for AA compliance
  • providing guidelines and support for content coordinators and publishers, to improve content accessibility and to increase organisational awareness of accessibility issues
  • incorporating a range of features into the site, as outlined below in the Accessibility features section
  • implementing a central process of quality assurance and testing
  • encouraging feedback from our users

Accessibility features

This website has several features that improve accessibility, including:

Skip to content

The 'skip to content' link is located at the top of each web page. Whether you are using a screen reader, mobile phone or PDA, or cannot easily use a mouse, the 'skip to content' link allows you to quickly bypass global navigation elements.

Text resizing

Each page has text resizing options to enlarge or decrease the size of the text to improve readability according to individual needs.

Design and templates

The template design and stylesheets used throughout this site have been developed according to WCAG 2.0 AA requirements. This has resulted in marked improvement in the areas of page layout, colour contrast, and coding.

Barriers to accessibility

Creating and maintaining an accessible website is a process of continuous improvement. There are still parts of our web presence that may present access problems for some people. These include:

Learning Management System (LMS)

Our LMS (Moodle) has not yet been tested and adapted to accommodate accessibility principles.

Content not yet migrated into our new web presence

There is a range of content presented in our old web templates that has not been redeveloped to incorporate new accessibility features.

Other content not hosted on UB's corporate web server

This statement of web accessibility refers to content hosted on the corporate web server. There is web content (especially databases and applications) hosted externally to the corporate server which is yet to be tested and adapted to accommodate accessibility principles.

Please contact us if you have questions about or difficulty accessing any of these areas.

Further support, information and contact details

Disability Liaison Unit

The role of the Disability Liaison Unit is to support the development of learning and working environments that enable full participation in University life by students and staff with a disability.

You can contact the Unit for general enquiries or to make an appointment with a campus Disability Liaison Officer.

Ph: 5327 9757
Email: disability@ballarat.edu.au

Web management

The Centre for eCommerce and Communications (CeCC) is responsible for managing UB's corporate web presence.

You can contact CeCC if you require any web advice, or for any questions or concerns about inaccessible content on our website.

Ph: 5327 9363
Email: Corporate Web Team

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