Accessibility statement

How accessible this website is

We know some parts of this website are not fully accessible:

• most older PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software
• live video streams do not have captions
• you cannot skip to the main content when using a screen reader

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 EASS (The Equality Advisory and support Services).

Kingston University 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

The website has been tested against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standard.

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.2 AA standard, due to the non-compliances listed below.

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

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations

• Documents - Older documents may not comply with accessibility standards, failing WCAG 2.2 success criterion 1.1.1 (non-text content). When we publish new documents, we'll either ensure they all meet accessibility standards or create them as HTML pages.
• PDFs - Older documents may not be compliant with accessibility standards. This fails WCAG 2.2 success criterion 1.1.1 (non-text content). When we publish new documents, we'll make sure they all meet accessibility standards or create these documents as HTML pages.

Disproportionate burden

We are not currently claiming a disproportionate burden on our website content.

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

• PDFs and other documents – 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 or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards.
• Live video – We do not plan to add captions to live video streams because live video is exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations.

Our new website has been tested extensively throughout development to ensure it meets the required accessibility standard. It will continue to be monitored regularly using automated/assisted tools like Silktide and Axe DevTools to address any problems as they arise.

Zoonou Ltd. conducted a further comprehensive manual accessibility audit of the website throughout May 2025, and we are currently addressing any accessibility issues found.

We continue to work hard to ensure our website is accessible for all, as reflected in our recent ranking on the Silktide UK University website index. We are currently ranked 8th and have climbed 66 places since our manual accessibility audit in May 2025.

The Silktide Index is a global accessibility league table that scores organisations based on their compliance with web accessibility standards, helping to improve accessibility across the web.

This statement was prepared on 17 February 2025. It was last reviewed on 11 March 2026.

This website was last tested on 10 March 2026. The test was carried out by the Kingston University Web Team. The most viewed pages were tested using automated testing tools. A further audit of the website was carried out to the WCAG 2.2 AA standard.