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Manage your preferences

The Leeds Beckett website is designed to enable you to manage your own privacy preferences. By clicking on 'Cookies' below you can manage what data the site collects about your browsing. This will only maintain if you are on your own device or using a synched version of your chosen browser. If you are using a shared or public machine without synching your browser then there is no need to change the preferences.

Our site is built with accessibility in mind and we seek to adhere to the WACG AA levels of compliance for digital accessibility. To support that we have provided instructions on managing animations below.

Cookies

Necessary Cookies
Necessary cookies enable you to use all the different parts of leedsbeckett.ac.uk. Without them services that you have asked for cannot be provided. Necessary cookies can only be disabled by changing your browser preferences.
Analytical Cookies
Analytical cookies help us understand how people are using our websites, so we can improve them and provide a better user experience. We also sometimes get our approved partner companies to analyse how people are using Leeds Beckett Websites and they may set their own analytical cookies in order to do this.
Marketing Cookies
Marketing cookies allow us to provide you with online adverts that are the most relevant and useful for you.
For more information please view our Privacy Policy

Animations & Interaction

The Leeds Beckett University website occasionally uses animations to page elements and animated gifs to add impact to pages. If you wish to stop them from playing for accessibility purposes or for personal preference then please see the guidance below. Please note that browsers sometimes change how they operate, so please refer to your browser help files to find their latest information.
How do I turn off animations?

Chrome

Chrome users will need to use browser extensions. Animation Policy from Google will help you set your own preferences.

Microsoft Edge

There is currently no way to disable animations within Microsoft Edge. Users of Edge (Chromium) browser can install the Chrome extensions above and use them.

Internet Explorer

To stop animations on a single page you can just press the 'Esc' key. This will stop the animation on that page. If you wish to restart the animations you need to refresh the page. To permanently disable the playing of animated GIF images, open Internet Options > Advanced tab. Under the Multimedia section, uncheck the Play animations in webpage check-box, click Apply and Exit and then restart your computer.

Firefox

Type about:config in Firefox address bar and hit Enter to open Settings. Search for the image.animation_mode flag and change its value from Normal to None. Once you restart Firefox this will disable animations.

Guides

Our brand

Your guide to understanding the LBU identity, including asset elements and tone of voice.

The main entrance of James Graham building

Style guide

Our rules for spelling, punctuation and grammar.

Image of female student working on a computer in the library

Understanding accessibility

Help our diverse audiences interact with our content.

Image of a male student in the library using a laptop with headphones on

Sitecore users

Guides and tips for web publishers and online content managers.

Woman doing design work on a laptop at a desk

Submit a request

If you have a design, asset creation or digital content requirement, you can submit a request via our online forms to the Creative or Digital team.

Submit a request

Get in touch

If you are looking for some extra help or information, you can speak to our Creative team or our Digital Experience and Engagement (Digital) team.

Creative team

Get in touch if you have any enquiries about our brand or putting together a creative brief for a future project.

creative@leedsbeckett.ac.uk

Creative team staff pages

Digital team

Get in touch if you are a digital content creator and need some additional support with writing for the web or publishing content to our content management system, Sitecore.