Introduction
Shaqra University is committed to providing an inclusive digital environment that allows everyone, including people with disabilities and the elderly, to access the content of its website. This policy sets out the University's commitment to accessibility and the standards it adopts.
Objectives
1. Make website content available to all users, regardless of their abilities.
2. Promote digital inclusion by adopting technologies that support different user groups.
3. Comply with national requirements and international practice in the field of accessibility.
Scope
This policy applies to the University's official website, the sub-sites of its colleges and deanships, and the content published through them.
Beneficiary Groups
In designing its digital content, the University takes into account the needs of users with visual, hearing, and motor disabilities, cognitive impairment, and learning difficulties, as well as elderly users.
Accessibility Principles
- Perceivable: Enabling all users to recognise content accurately through sight, hearing, or touch.
- Operable: Designing interface elements so that users can navigate and interact with them.
- Understandable: Ensuring content and interfaces are clear and comprehensible to diverse users.
- Robust: Building content so that it is correctly interpreted by current and future assistive technologies.
Accessibility Standards
1. Compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.2) at Level AA, the recommended level within the conformance-level classification.
2. Adherence to the guide on accessibility of digital channel content for people with disabilities and the elderly, issued by the Digital Government Authority.
3. Evaluating accessibility using approved assessment tools, reviewing unmet success criteria, and re-evaluating after improvements are applied.
Not all success criteria may currently apply to every page, and the University is carrying out ongoing improvements to raise its level of conformance.
Assistive Technologies
The website is developed with compatibility for assistive technologies in mind, including screen readers, screen magnifiers, speech recognition, Braille technology, head- and eye-tracking software, dark mode, and captions.
Embedded Technologies Supporting Accessibility
- Text alternatives: Text alternatives for non-text content such as images.
- Time-based media: Captions and audio descriptions for multimedia.
- Adaptable: Content that can be presented in different formats without losing information or structure.
- Distinguishable: Clear, easily interpreted content, including sufficient colour contrast and text-size control.
- Accessible navigation: A clear navigation structure, a skip-to-main-content link, and keyboard browsing support.
- Language markup: Correct language and text-direction markup in both Arabic and English.
Accessibility Tools on the Website
The website provides tools that allow users to adjust how content is displayed, including smart contrast, mono color, high contrast, high saturation, zoom in and out, and reset tools.
Mobile-Friendly Design
- Responsive design: The site works effectively on desktops, tablets, and smartphones.
- Touch-friendly interface: Buttons, menus, and forms are sized and spaced for comfortable use on touchscreens.
Roles and Responsibilities
- The entity overseeing the website: Supervises the implementation of this policy and verifies adherence to it.
- User-interface designers and web developers: Design and develop the website to meet the adopted success criteria.
- Digital content owners across university entities: Publish accessible content through text alternatives for images and logically structured headings.
- External vendors: Comply with the adopted accessibility requirements when developing solutions or delivering services.
Feedback and Support
The University welcomes user feedback on the accessibility of its website. If you encounter any difficulty, please contact us:
- Email: info@su.edu.sa
- Contact form: https://www.su.edu.sa/en/contact/form
Please include the page link and a description of the difficulty to help us address it.