This accessibility statement applies to https://www.peaceagreements.org
This website is run by the Political Settlements Research Programme team in the School of Law on behalf of The University of Edinburgh. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this application. For example, that means you should be able to:
AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability. This is an external site
with suggestions to make your computer more accessible:
AbilityNet – My Computer My Way
With a few simple steps you can customise the appearance of our website using your browser settings to make it
easier to read and navigate:
Additional information on how to customise our website appearance
If you are a member of University staff or a student, you can use the free SensusAccess accessible document
conversion service:
Information on SensusAccess
We know some parts of this website are not fully accessible:
If you need information on this website in a different format, including accessible PDF, large print, audio recording or braille, please contact the Political Settlements Research Programme:
We will consider your request and get back to you within 5 working days.
We are 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, please contact the Political Settlements Research Programme:
We will consider your request and get back to you within 5 working days.
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 please contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS) directly:
Contact details for the Equality Advisory and Support Service
(EASS)
The government has produced information on how to report accessibility issues:
Reporting an accessibility
problem on a public sector website
British Sign Language service
contactSCOTLAND-BSL runs a service for British Sign Language users and all of Scotland’s public bodies using video
relay. This enables sign language users to contact public bodies and vice versa. The service operates 24 hours a
day, 7 days a week.
contactSCOTLAND-BSL service details
The University of Edinburgh is committed to making its websites and applications 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 (WCAG) 2.1 AA standard, due to the
non-compliances listed below.
The full guidelines are available at:
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 AA standard
Non-accessible content
The content listed below is non-accessible for the following reasons.
Noncompliance with the accessibility regulations
The following items do not comply with the WCAG 2.1 AA success criteria:
We are not currently claiming that any accessibility problems would be a disproportionate burden to fix.
PDFs and other documents
Many of our older PDFs and Word documents 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).
WCAG 2.1 success criterion 4.1.2 (name, role value)
We will try to ensure any new PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards and where we find any that are not accessible we will rectify this as soon as possible.
We will continue to address the accessibility issues highlighted. Where issues are within our direct control, we will work to provide a significant improvement by November 2020 and aim to resolve all issues by June 2021. We will prioritise the issues we have identified with creating alternative formats for PDF documents with the aim of resolving these as quickly as possible.
While we are in the process of resolving these accessibility issues, or where we are unable, we will ensure reasonable adjustments are in place to make sure no user is disadvantaged. As changes are made, we will continue to review accessibility and retest the accessibility of this website.
Improvements to date (September 2020):
This statement was prepared on 22 September 2020. It was last reviewed on 23 September 2020.
This website was tested by the Political Settlements Research Programme in September 2020, primarily using Firefox and Chrome browsers. We carried out basic manual testing alongside automated testing using Wave WebAim.
We tested a sample of pages that include most of the various page formats on this page, including Home, Search PA-X, PA-X Local, Amnesties, Visualisations, and About.
We tested:
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