Swansea University actively works towards improving standards of accessibility and usability for its website. In doing so, it is acting in accordance with the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 Part Four (as amended by Special Educational Needs Disability Act 2001) and the Disability Discrimination Act 2005.

The University is improving accessibility by the use of validated XHTML 1.0 transitional and CSS 2.0 as coding standards for all of its pages.

The University is striving to comply with all of the Priority 1 and 2 accessibility checkpoints across its web presence, as established in the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) web accessibility initiative (WAI). Good practice initiatives are established using the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/)

It is possible that some of our older pages might not currently conform to these standards. However, we are actively engaging with content providers across the University to ensure that all future web pages are compliant with W3C guidelines for accessibility.

If you would like further information or are experiencing problems accessing Swansea University's website please contact weboffice@swansea.ac.uk

Access Keys

In order to conform with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, the University ensures that it's published material can be navigated through keyboard functionality. The legend for our access keys are as follows:

S - Skip Navigation

1 - Home Page

2 - News Centre

3 - Site Map

a - Studying @ Swansea

b - Schools & Research

c - Business & Careers

d - Alumni & Visitors

e - The University & Staff

Access keys are keyboard shortcuts for the main links used in the site. How the keys work varies between platforms and browsers. Generally, on Microsoft Windows systems you hold down the "Alt" key and press the relevant access key; on Apple systems you hold down the "Cmd" key  and press the relevant access key.

When using Microsoft Internet Explorer, pressing the keys as above navigates to the shortcut; you must then press the "Enter" key to actually jump to the corresponding location. When using Netscape or Mozilla browsers, pressing the keys as above jumps immediately to the desired location. Opera users must hold down the "Shift" key, then the "Escape" key and then press the relevant access key.