Accessibility

Accessibility statement for The Defence Academy of the United Kingdom

The Defence Academy of the United Kingdom is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

We are committed to ensuring everyone can access our website. This includes people with:

  • Impaired vision
  • Motor difficulties
  • Cognitive impairments or learning disabilities
  • Deafness or impaired hearing

As well as users with dial-up, older browsers or newer technologies such as smartphones and tablets.

The site has been designed to meet the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) standards. You can read more about these standards at the W3C website. We have endeavoured to achieve the AA standard of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2.

AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability.

How accessible this website is

Non accessible content

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

Course Application and Enquiry Forms

We are aware that there are currently some limitations on the Course Application, Course Enquiry and Contact Us forms:

•    Some pages have the same title, so the title cannot be used to distinguish the page.  This doesn’t meet WCAG 2.2 success criterion 2.4.2 (Page Titled)   
•    All fieldset  elements should be labeled with legend  elements. This doesn’t meet WCAG 2.2 success criterion 3.3.2 (Labels or Instructions)
•    A fieldset  element should contain form controls or links. This doesn’t meet WCAG 2.2 success criterion 1.3.1 (Info and Relationships)

Disproportionate burden

Our website has some legacy PDFs that would be a disproportionate burden to fix.

PDFs and other documents

Many of our older PDFs and Word documents don’t meet accessibility standards. For example, they may not be structured so they’re accessible to a screen reader. This doesn’t meet WCAG 2.2 success criterion 4.1.2 (Name, Role, Value). We are working towards making our PDFs and Word documents as accessible as possible.

What we’re doing to improve accessibility

We are working with the third-party supplier to fix issues, audit the site and ensure full compliance.

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared on 25 March 2025. It was last reviewed on 25 March 2025.

This website was last tested on 24 March 2025.

Accessibility testing has been undertaken using a third party audit tool and through the use of the WebAIM WAVE browser extension for Edge.

This website is partially compliant with these standards and we are working towards full compliance.

Reporting accessibility problems with this website

We’re always looking to improve the accessibility of this website. If you find any problems that aren’t listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, please use the Contact Us form and select the Website Technical Issues category.