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We want everyone who visits the City St George's, University of London website to feel welcome and find the experience rewarding.

This statement applies only to content hosted on the sub-domain ‘https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/’

This website is run by City St George's, University of London. 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:

  • Embedded videos may not have captions or may have fixed, open captions only
  • Embedded videos do not have audio description
  • PDFs (Portable Document Formats) and other documents are not fully compatible with screen readers and do not meet accessibility standards
  • Audio streams do not have transcripts
  • Embedded third-party widgets do not meet accessibility standards
  • Images may have missing or non-useful alt descriptions
  • You may not be able to recognise the role of some elements across the website when using assistive technologies.
  • The DiscoverUni course statistics widget, embedded on undergraduate course pages as a legal requirement, contains known accessibility issues including
    • a lack of pause/stop controls for animated content
    • disruption to screen reader reading order during transitions
    • an absent keyboard focus indicator.

    These issues originate in third-party code controlled by the Office for Students and cannot be fixed by City St George's. We have raised these issues with the OfS.

Feedback and contact information

If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille, please email the Web Content team.

We’ll consider your request and get back to you in 3-5 working days.

Reporting accessibility problems with this website

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 Web Development team.

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

City St George's, University of London 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.

Accessibility statements for other student digital services at City St George's

Read the accessibility statements for other City St George's digital platforms and services for students on the Accessibility blog.

Non-accessible content

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

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations

  • Across the website some link text doesn’t make sense when read on its own (for example, ‘click here’), and there are instances where text is difficult to read (Success criterion 2.4.4 Link Purpose - In Context)
  • Across the website some images do not have a text alternative, so people using a screen reader cannot access the information. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.1.1 (non-text content)
  • Across the website, in content implemented using markup languages, IDs are not always unique or confirming to value values
    • 4.1.2 Name, Role, Value
  • In content implemented using iframes we do not always provide a title (4.1.2 Name, Role, Value)
  • In some forms we do not always provide a submit button (3.2.2 Predictability On input)
  • In some instances the "Bold" tag is used to format text (1.3.1 Info and relationships).

DiscoverUni course statistics widget (course pages)

Undergraduate course pages on this website embed the DiscoverUni widget, which is mandated by the Office for Students (OfS) and hosted on the discoveruni.gov.uk domain. We have identified the following accessibility issues within this widget:

  • 2.2.2 Pause, Stop, Hide (Level A): The widget displays course statistics through an auto-advancing animated carousel with no mechanism for users to pause, stop or hide the movement. This can be disorienting and prevent some users from reading the content.
  • 1.3.2 Meaningful Sequence (Level A): When a screen reader user reads content within the widget, the animated transitions interrupt the reading order. Depending on the screen reader and browser combination, users may be ejected from the widget entirely, or receive a mixture of text from two different statistics, making the information potentially misleading or unintelligible.
  • 1.3.1 Info and Relationships (Level A): ARIA labels are applied to elements that have no ARIA role, which may cause content to be announced twice or incorrectly by some screen readers.
  • 2.4.7 Focus Visible (Level AA): The keyboard focus indicator has been intentionally removed from the "See course data" link within the widget, with no replacement focus style provided. Keyboard users cannot determine where focus is within the widget.

We aim to improve our websites accessibility on a regular and continuous basis.

See the section below ('What we're doing to improve accessibility') on how we are improving our site accessibility.

Content that’s not within the scope of the accessibility regulations

Live video

DiscoverUni widget — third-party content

The DiscoverUni widget is developed and maintained by the Office for Students (OfS), a government body. It is embedded on our undergraduate course pages as a legal requirement. As the widget is hosted on an external domain (discoveruni.gov.uk) and controlled entirely by a third party, we are unable to directly remediate the accessibility issues identified above.

We have reported these issues to the Office for Students and will continue to advocate for their resolution at source. We believe this widget is exempt from our direct accessibility obligations under Regulation 7(2)(b) of the Public Sector Bodies Accessibility Regulations 2018 (content from third parties that is neither funded nor developed by the public sector body, and over which it has no control). However, we recognise the impact on users with disabilities and will monitor for improvements made by OfS.

If you are unable to access the course statistics in the widget, the same data is available directly at discoveruni.gov.uk. Please contact us if you require assistance accessing this information in an alternative format.

PDF and other documents

Many of our older PDFs do not meet accessibility standards - for example, they may not be structured so they’re accessible to a screen reader. This does not meet WCAG 2.1 success criterion 4.1.2 (name, role, value).

Some of our PDFs are essential to providing our services. For example, we have PDFs with information on how users can access our services.

Work is ongoing to fix PDF documents that are essential to our providing our services. These will be converted to accessible pages, or an accessible alternative will be made available on request. Some of our content across the site will need to remain in PDF format where a durable format is needed (for legal reasons or otherwise).

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.

Any new PDFs we publish will meet accessibility standards.

Third party tools

Our website includes third party content and functionality. Depending on the University's relationship with the third party, we cannot always guarantee its accessibility.

City St George's is aware of accessibility issues with the Discover Uni widget, but is required to embed it in undergraduate course pages.

Where we choose to feature third-party content or functionality on our website, we are responsible for taking steps to make sure that it meets accessibility standards.

However, where we are legally required to feature third-party content or functionality we cannot reasonably accept responsibility for ensuring it meets accessibility standards. And where the University links to third-party websites that may offer benefits to the University's users, we are not responsible for the accessibility of these or any other websites that the University doesn't manage. However, where it is within our control, we will make every reasonable effort to work towards meeting accessibility requirements. 

Certain third-party tools, content and/or functionality are integrated/featured on our website, and these have their own accessibility statements.

How we tested this website

The team incorporate the WCAG 2.1 AA standard into every stage of development when designing and building new pages.

We employ two qualified, full-time user experience professionals, who advise on usability best practice and conduct expert and accessibility tests on every new page template. We test pages with multiple browsers, on macOS, Windows, iOS and Android, with and without screen reader software.

We run user testing sessions online and in-person at the Interaction Lab.

We subject almost every page of the City St George's, University of London website to automated testing with the axe accessibility checker. For extensive archives using the same template, like news articles, we test a random sample of 10% of the pages published in the last 12 months.

We use site governance software to track accessibility issues across every page of the site.

What we’re doing to improve accessibility

We want our website to offer the best experience possible for all of our users.

  • We are doing a blend of automated and manual checks with the help of Siteimprove, WAVE, ARCTool and Axe accessibility checkers to monitor and keep track of the fixes we need to do across the website
  • We will be hiring an accessibility agency to do an audit of our website within the second half of 2026 (July-December)
  • We are advising developers on accessibility best practice and our developers are working through the issues raised in the audits.
  • We are working with our suppliers to fix issues and think about future developments
  • We have recently updated our content guidelines to include accessibility
  • We will be encouraging our content editors to reduce the high volume of web pages so that auditing activities can be more easily managed
  • We are also updating the ways in which we provide training and best practice to those working on our website.
  • A regular central website audit using an automated service, followed by manual prioritisation of issues with key user journeys.

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared on . It was last reviewed on .

Please note that following our merger, the policies on our website are the previous City policies. All policies are subject to review and re-development as part of the integration within City St George’s, University of London.