Website Accessibility

The goal of the u&u website website is to guarantee the accessibility of its content and services for individuals with disabilities who require additional access support. Resources have been dedicated to enhancing the website's user-friendliness and accessibility, driven by the aligned mission with Recite Me that every individual deserves to experience and engage with digital content, equally. 

Measures to support accessibility

This website takes the following measures to ensure accessibility:

• Include accessibility as part of our mission statement.

• Include accessibility throughout our internal policies.

• Integrate accessibility into our procurement practices.

The u&u website was designed to make content available to the greatest possible audience, including readers who require assistive technology such as translation, screen reader, styling options and reading aids. u&u employs Recite Me, an online accessibility toolbar that lets you personalise your experience on our website, enabling you to choose how you interact with our content and products.

Key Features of the Toolbar

• Translation and Language Support: The toolbar supports more than 100 languages, allowing you to read text in your preferred language. It also features a dictionary. 

• Text-to-Speech: The toolbar translates website text into natural-sounding speech in over 65 languages, allowing individuals with visual impairments or reading issues to understand our content better.

• Customisable Reading Options: You can change the font styles, sizes, colours, and backdrop contrasts to your liking, improving readability and decreasing eye strain.

• Immersive Reading Experience: Use a screen mask to focus on specific text, reducing distractions and enhancing concentration.

How to Use Our Accessibility Toolbar

When launched, our toolbar appears on top of our website, making it simple to customise our site in context to meet your specific needs.

To access the tool bar on:

Desktop: Click on the ‘Accessibility and language options’ button in the top right-hand corner of our website, next to ‘Donate to Griefline’. 

Mobile Devices: Click on the ‘accessibility’ icon floating in the top right corner of your screen. 

Toolbar key features:

Play audio

• Back: Rewind to the preceding paragraph of text.

• Play: Press the Play button to read the text aloud.

• Forward: Skip to the next paragraph of text.

Text options

• Decrease: This will reduce the text size.

• Font: You can alter the font style of text.

• Increase: This increases the font size.

Colour, ruler, and screen mask

• Colour: Change the background, text, and link colours.

• Ruler: Click to enable the reading ruler.

• Screen Mask: Will produce a letterbox for focused viewing of a section of the page.

Dictionary, translation, and magnification

• Dictionary: Highlight and click on this to see the definition of the word.

• Language: Translate text into another language.

• Magnifier: Click and drag the magnifying glass to magnify the text on the screen.

Plain text, margins, and audio download

• Text Mode: Remove images to view in plain text mode.

• Margins: To change the text dimensions, narrow the width of the text column.

• Download Audio: Highlight the text and click the button to download it as an audio file.

Settings: Change your Recite settings

• Reset: This restores the default settings.

• User Guide: This is an overview of the Recite Me Toolbar Features.

Keyboard shortcuts

• Tab: to go to the next toolbar button.

• Shift + Tab: to move backwards

• Spacebar: Use the spacebar to choose a button and change toggles

• CTRL + Right: Press to play the next element

• CTRL + Left: Press to play the previous element

• CTRL + ALT + P: Press to play the current element

• CTRL + ALT + F: Press to see the font menu

• CTRL + ALT + C: Press to display the theme menu

• CTRL + R: Press to enable or disable the ruler

• CTRL + D: Press to enable or disable the dictionary

• CTRL + L: Press to see translation languages

• CTRL + X: Press to enable or disable text-only mode

• CTRL + M: Press to display page margin settings

• CTRL + Shift + O: Press to display settings menu

• CTRL + S: Press to save settings

Accessibility FAQs

Do I need to download anything to enable the accessibility toolbar in my browser? 

No. The toolbar is cloud-based, so there is no need to install anything on your computer.

How can I disable the auto-read feature?

To disable the auto-read function, click the “Settings” button. This will provide you with a list of three functions to choose from. You must click on the bottom to the right of the option labelled “Autoplay”. This will then prevent automatic reading.

How can I change the language?

To change the language on u&u's website, simply click “Change language” in the toolbar and select from the drop-down list. Once you’ve chosen your preferred language from the list, the site will be translated into that language.

Languages with the “Audio” icon indicate that the text on the webpage can be read aloud by the toolbar in the language you have chosen. 

How do I turn off the accessibility toolbar?

To close the accessibility toolbar, simply click the X icon to the right of the toolbar.

Reporting Accessibility Problems with this Website

We are dedicated to creating a digitally accessible experience for all of our candidates and clients through our website. If you encounter content that you cannot access, or have trouble using our website with assistive technology, please contact us on the details below and we’ll reach out to help you through it or provide you with an accessible alternative.

Email: info@uandu.com

Phone: 07 3232 9100

Any feedback we receive we aim to get back to you within a suitable time. (if a response is requested). 

Third-party content and functionality

We may make use of third-party resources that embed content on our website. Wherever possible we will ensure these are conformant.

Technical Information About this Website’s Accessibility

Our organisation is committed to making its website accessible to all visitors, in line with regional regulations and we aim for conformance with the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) and WCAG 2.2 (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2) at level AA. 

Technical specifications

Accessibility of this website relies on the following technologies to work with the particular combination of web browsers and any assistive technologies or plugins installed on your computer:

• HTML

• CSS

• JavaScript

These technologies are relied upon for conformance with the accessibility guidelines used.

 What we’re doing to improve accessibility

Our accessibility journey is continuing. We regularly review our website and its content to identify and fix known issues. We can do this by running a check of our website with the Recite Me Accessibility Checker.

This statement is reviewed at least once a year and updated.