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College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences Application Portal accessibility statement

This accessibility statement applies to the College of MVLS IT Portal.

Using this website

This website is run by The University of Glasgow. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:

  • change colours, contrast levels and fonts
  • zoom in up to 300% without the text spilling off the screen
  • navigate most of the website using just a keyboard or speech recognition software
  • listen to most of the website using a screen reader (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)

We’ve also made the website text as simple as possible to understand.

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

How accessible this website is

We know some parts of this website aren’t fully accessible:

  • Some tables have many rows and columns that necessitate horizontal and vertical scrolling
  • Tables have many cells so are not easily accessible using just the keyboard
  • Uploaded PDF and Word documents are out of our control and may not be fully accessible
  • Link buttons and search boxes on some pages are not fully descriptive

Feedback and contact information

If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we're not meeting accessibility requirements, contact:

If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille, contact:

We'll consider your request and get back to you in 5 days.

British Sign Language

BSL users can contact us via contactSCOTLAND-BSL, the online British Sign Language interpreting video relay service.

Find out more about BSL assistance: contactSCOTLAND

Enforcement procedure

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is responsible for enforcing 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 Glasgow is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

Compliance status

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.2 AA standard, due to the non-compliances listed below.

Non-accessible content

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

Non-compliance with accessibility regulations

Issues with text

  • No option to change the line height or text spacing
  • Search boxes on grids do not describe their purpose on their own; descriptive tags need to be added to all search boxes
  • Some buttons use colour shades or greying out to distinguish if they are enabled or disabled. The colour schemes are part of our CSS styling suite that is part of the suite of components used to create the html components.

Issues with interactive tools and transactions

  • The system has a timeout of 20 minutes which is shown in a dismissible header at log in, but if the user fails to renew the timeout by navigating to a new page or using the save options, then work will be lost when re-authenticating after a timeout

Content that's not within the scope of the accessibility regulations

Issues with PDFs and other documents

  • PDFs and Word documents are uploaded to the site by users and can then be downloaded by other users; the accessibility status of these documents is not within our control

What we're doing to improve accessibility

The current issues are not fixable within the current application due to third-party components used throughout the website. We are investigating options to upgrade legacy components to newer versions that will be accessibility compliant. Any new content published will meet the accessibility requirements.

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared on 27 March 2020. It was last updated on 28 May 2026

The website was last tested on 18 May 2026 against the WCAG 2.2 AA standard. The test was carried out by MVLS IT. A further audit of the website was carried out to the WCAG 2.2 AA standard.

This page was last updated 9 June 2026.