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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

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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.

Accessibility guidelines in action

This section of our accessibility guide will focus on how to make our content operable. This will ensure our users can find, navigate and use our content, regardless of how they choose to access it.

Navigation and page structure

We should always provide ways for our users to navigate our content with ease. For some users, page navigation is done through the use of a keyboard or assistive technologies. Thinking about page structure and using the appropriate headers can help our users jump from one section to another.

See ‘Titles, headers and page structure’ under ‘Perceivable’ for more information about structuring your content effectively.

Using page anchor navigation

Structuring our content using headered sections will also allow us to add anchor navigations or ‘jump to’ links to our pages, helping our users to easily and quickly find the information they are looking for. This is particularly helpful on pages with lots of information to convey, which can be overwhelming for some people.

Calls to action - Links and buttons

Link text should be unique within a page, concise, should be meaningful when read out of context, and should help users to know something about their destination if they click on it.

Link text such as 'Click here' and 'Read more' fail to meet accessibility criteria.

This is particularly important to those using assistive technologies:

Screen reader users can generate a list of links and navigate them alphabetically - ambiguous link text such as 'More' is not helpful in this context
Users of speech recognition technology can select a link with a voice command like 'click' followed by the link text. So it is also helpful to use unique link text that is short and easy to say

For example:

For more information on using meaningful link text click here - Is not correct
For more information on using meaningful link text visit our anchor text guide - Is correct

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.