NUI Galway Accessibility Statement

NUI Galway is dedicated to supporting all customers. You may experience some bugs when trying to access nuigalway.ie using assistive devices. We're in the process of improving the Web site in this regard. In the meantime, please check this page for the latest information on how to best access our Web site.

Acessibility Tools

You can listen to this Web site aloud while browsing by using a free software download, called Browsealoud. This can be useful for people with reading difficulties, reduced sight, or language issues. First download and install the software, open the NUI Galway Web site in your browser, scroll over the text that you want to hear, and Browsealoud will speak what you require; helping you navigate and understand our content more easily.

Standards Compliance

Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML)

Pages on this Web site validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional. There may be some content that does not Conformance to XHTML 1.0 Transitional standards.

Check XHTML Validation.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

W3C standard Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

Check CSS Validation.

Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)

Double-A of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, including all Priority 1 and Priority 2 checkpoints defined in the Guidelines. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 explain how to make Web content accessible to people with disabilities. Conformance to these Guidelines will help make the Web more accessible to users with disabilities and will benefit all users.

The WCAG 1.0 guidelines contain multiple checkpoints which can not be tested automatically; they require a judgment call made by a human, not software. CSS of any particular design is as relevant as the markup when it comes to accessibility. In some cases NUI Galway Web pages may come close to achieving AA compliance. But we can't in good conscience say that the NUI Galway Web site is a fully AA-compliant site.

Check for WAI-AA Conformance.

Standards Compliant Browsers

Browsers that support all of the standards used by this Web site include:

MS Windows	Macintosh	Unix / Linux
Firefox 1+ Internet Explorer 5.5+ Netscape 7+ Opera 8+	Camino 1.0+ Firefox 1+ Internet Explorer 5.2+ Opera 8+ Safari 1.0.3+	FireFox 1+ Mozilla 1.6+

Browsers that DO NOT support all of the standards include:

MS Windows	Macintosh	Unix / Linux
Netscape 1 - 6 IE 1 - 5.0	IE (all versions) Note: Microsoft has withdrawn support for this product and advise users to use another browser.	Konqueror 1 - 4.3

Display Settings

Text Zoom

Using the (-) (+), links at the top of every page, you can set the default text size of Web pages. Your preferred text size will be remembered when you return to this Web site (Please note that you must have cookies enabled for this to work). The cookie that preserves your text magnification is called "fontsize" and only contains the number 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 depending on the magnification you last selected.

Normal / High Contrast view

Pages on this Web site can be viewed using two different Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). You can toggle between "Normal" and "High Contrast" view at the top of the page. The high contrast version displays the Web pages in black & white.

Text version

The text only version removes all graphics from the pages and allows you navigation the Web site in text mode. You can also switch back to the graphics version at any time.

Access Keys

Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the Web site. On Windows, you can press ALT + an access key; on Macintosh, you can press Control + an access key.

All pages on this site define the following access keys:

• Access key 1 - Home page
• Access key 2 - Future Students
• Access key 3 - Current Students
• Access key 4 - Faculties & Departments
• Access key 5 - Research
• Access key 6 - Administration & Services
• Access key 7 - About
• Access key 8 - Search Page
• Access key 9 - Online Services
• Access key 0 - Accessibility statement
• Access key t - Jump to Search input field
• Access key s - Search
• Access key p - Printer friendly version
• Access key m - Sitemap

Links

Many links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target (such as the headline of an article or name of a person).

Links are written to make sense out of context.

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