Accessibility

Statement of compliance for WISEflow

Accessibility = good design

We believe digital assessment has the power to transform education for students and staff, and want as many people as possible to be able to use our digital assessment platform, WISEflow.

WISEflow has been developed and designed to meet the needs of all the people who want or need to use it. Within WISEflow we pursue the principle of Universal Design, where design is “the design and composition of an environment so that it can be accessed, understood and used to the greatest extent possible by all people regardless of their age, size, ability or disability”.

In this statement, we’ll cover what we’ve already done to make WISEflow accessible, what we intend to do to improve its accessibility and how we plan to maintain accessibility.

Accessibility in WISEflow

WISEflow adheres to the WCAG2.1 (ISO/IEC 40500:2012) and WAI-ARIA standards and recommendations, which are produced by W3C. We are compliant at Level AA, although there may be single-page elements that may be non-compliant.

Single page instances of non-compliance are limited to the licence administrator tool and do not impact user groups of students, assessors and authors.

In practice users are able to:

  • navigate the website using speech recognition software

  • listen to the website using a screen reader (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)

  • change colours, contrast levels and fonts, except in single cases

  • zoom in up to 300% without the text spilling off the screen, except in single cases

  • navigate the website using just a keyboard, except in single cases

These limited discrepancies are the result of legacy inconsistencies in the platform that aren’t, at present, possible to change.

The platform’s authoring environment adheres to the WAI-ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) standard, which means that it’s accessible to course coordinators and authors with disabilities.

WISEflow is optimised for a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) strategy, making it possible for students to complete assessments on the devices that they’re familiar and that already have applications for additional assistance installed.

What we’ll do in the future

1.     We continue to enhance WISEflow with accessibility at the heart of our development focus.  

2.     We are committed to inclusive design and each new component we develop will be built to meet the required WCAG standards.   

3.     We will continue our work to refactor the platform to address, where possible, the single page instances of non-compliance.

4.     WISEflow will continuously be developed to comply with web browser standards and leading operating systems. The platform supports iOS, Windows and Chrome OS, as well as mobile platforms where standard browsers operate (Edge, Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Opera).

Reporting accessibility problems

We’re always looking to improve the accessibility of WISEflow. If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, please contact us at info@uniwise.dk.

Enforcement procedure

The Agency for Digitisation is responsible for enforcing The EU Directive on the Accessibility of Public Sector Websites, also known as the Web Accessibility Directive (WAD) or Directive 2016/2102. If you’re not happy with how we respond to your complaint, contact the Danish Digitisation Agency at web@digst.dk.

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared on 11 March 2021. It was last reviewed and updated on 27 September 2022.