Accessibility Statement for iohannes.com

This accessibility statement applies to the domain iohannes.com. The website is run by the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing (ITSEE) at the University of Birmingham. Our general contact details can be found in the footer and more specific contact details are provided in the relevant sections of this statement.

We have tried to make this website as accessibile as we can. There are some areas that are not fully accessible and these are listed below.

• The HTML representations of our digital editions and manuscript transcriptions
• The excel spreadsheet download on the website
• The PDF documents on the website
• There are still be instances of text in languages, modern and ancient, which do not have appropriate lanaguage indications for screen readers. These might be short portions or individual words of Biblical text, book titles, library names or terms in other langauges which have become technical terms in the discipline.

What to do if you cannot access parts of this website

Where possible we have made the information which is not accessible on our website available in an alternative form. Details of the alternatives can be found in the section on non accessible content.

If you need information in a different format which is not covered in the alternatives already provided please contact us at itsee@contacts.bham.ac.uk.

Reporting accessiblity problems with this website

If you find any accessibility problems which are not listed in this stamement or you think we are not meeting accessibility requirements, please email itsee@contacts.bham.ac.uk.

Enforcement procedure

If you are unhappy with the response you have received from us about your accessibility-related issue, you can make a complaint to the University by emailing accessibility-complaint@contacts.bham.ac.uk.

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 the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS).

Technical information about this website's accessibility

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

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard, due to the non-compliances listed below.

Non accessible content

• The pages in our digital editions which explain the appearance of the transcriptions have a number of colour contrast problems because of the colours used for the display of the transcriptions (see next item).

• The digital editions themselves are not accessible. There are many problems including colour contrast problems, the use of colour only for semantics, keyboard navigation and language annotation. These HTML representations are not essential to understanding the data and are automatically generated from TEI XML files. Links to download the TEI XML files are available on the transcription and apparatus download page.

The following problems relate to other areas of this website.

• The HTML representations of our manuscript transcriptions are not accessible. There are many problems including colour contrast problems, the use of colour for semantics, keyboard navigation and language annotation. These HTML representations are not essential to understanding the data and are automatically generated from our TEI XML files. Links to download the TEI XML files are available on the transcription and apparatus download page.

• The excel file of citations related to Augustine's Text of John by H.A.G Houghton may not be accessible. Much of this information can also be found in our database of citations. You can see the citations of John in Augustines works at this url: https://itsee-wce.birmingham.ac.uk/citations/citation/results/?_advanced=true&biblical_work__identifier=NT_John&work__author__abbreviation=AU. The main difference between the two is that there may be duplication of data in the database as the data is still being cleaned and edited.

Content that is not within the scope of the accessibility regulations

The PDF files of the appendices for A Textual Study of Family 1 in the Gospel of John by Alison Welsby were produced before September 2018 and are therefore not within the scope of the accessibility regulations.

How we tested this website

This website was tested with the testing tools listed below.

• Wave
• Lighthouse
• axe

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was first prepared on 21 September 2020. It was last updated on 21 September 2020.