Accessibility Statement for Worlding Public Cultures

This website is run by the Transnational Art Identity and Nation (TrAIN) Research Centre of the University of the Arts London (UAL). This accessibility statement applies to worldingcultures.org. This website is in beta and, as such, you may come across content that isn’t accessible or find that certainly functionality doesn’t work. Please contact us if you encounter any problems using the contact information below. A new version of the website will be live on early 2022 and we ensure that it will be more accessible. This website uses HTML 5 (HyperText Mark-up Language) and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) to render content. We have also used other technologies including JavaScript on certain areas of the website. We commit to ensuring the beta version of thewebsite is as accessible as possible and we want as many people as possible to be able to use it. This means that you should be able to:

• access the website regardless of the device and browser you are using
• zoom in up to 300% without the text spilling off the screen
• navigate most of the website using just a keyboard
• navigate most of the website using speech recognition software
• listen to most of the website using a screen reader (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)

We have also tried to make the website text as easy to understand as possible although we recognise we have more work to do on this. AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability.

How accessible this website is

We know that some parts of the website are not fully accessible:

• Some images may not have alternative (alt) text descriptions.

Feedback and contact information

If you need information on this website in an alternative, more accessible format please contact Dr Maribel Hidalgo-Urbaneja at m.hidalgourbaneja@arts.ac.uk Please include details of the content you need and the required format or the service you are trying to access. We will then provide you what you need. We aim to provide you with an initial response within two working days and will provide clear information about how we will deal with your request.

Reporting accessibility problems with this website

We’re always looking to improve the accessibility of this website. If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, contact Dr Maribel Hidalgo-Urbaneja at m.hidalgourbaneja@arts.ac.uk We aim to provide you with an initial response within two working days and will provide clear information about how we will deal with your enquiry or complaint. If you feel we have not answered your enquiry or complaint satisfactorily, please contact us again.

Enforcement procedure

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).

Contacting us by phone or visiting us in person

For information about contacting us by phone or to arrange a visit to our offices please visit the Contact Us information.

TrAIN Research Centre

University of the Arts London

16 John Islip Street

London SW1P 4JU

United Kingdom

More information about accessing our buildings is available from AccessAble.

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

UAL 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 2.1 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 the accessibility regulations

• Some images may not have alternative (alt) text descriptions while other decorative and spacer images may not have null alternative text. This fails WCAG Success Criterion 1.1.1 Non-text Content (Level A). We plan to add alt text to all of our images from January 2022 onwards.
• The colour contrast of the text on some of the pages pages does not meet the minimum required colour contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for normal text in some parts of the website. This fails WCAG Success Criterion 1.4.3: Contrast (Minimum) (Level AA). The website is currently being redesigned and the changes to the design are due to go live in January 2022 which will fix this problem.

What we’re doing to improve accessibility

This is the beta version of our website and we will re-designing and re-platform the site in late 2021. As part of that re-design we will ensure that the designs we create and the content with add meet the WCAG 2.1 AA guidelines.

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared on the 1st of December 2021. We used the following automated accessibility tools, assistive technology and manual testing methods to test a sample of pages of our website. These included:

• WAVE from WebAIM
• Manually auditing the alt text of all images
• Manually checking colour contrast of text

The selection of pages we tested were:

• Homepage
• What we do page
• Who we are page
• Amsterdam Team page
• Heidelberg Team page
• London Team page
• Montreal Team page
• Ottawa Team page
• Chapbooks and Publications page
• Amsterdam Assemby Page
• Ottawa Academy Page
• London Conference and Gathering Page

Search people

Search for people contributing to events such as exhibitions or book publications. Also identify their connections with other people in specific roles.

Browse places

Search for events like exhibitions and the publication of books by geographical location on a map.

Browse dates

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Browse terminology

Browse the subject terms used in the database arranged in a hierarchy.

The Worlding Public Cultures chapbook series uses the small-book format to articulate and disseminate urgent and current research on transcultural, transnational, and decolonial issues in art and culture.

This series aims to investigate the global dimensions of contemporary public culture through the concept of ‘worlding’, an understanding of the world generated through continuous processes of world-making. The deployment of ‘worlding’ in this series builds on the postcolonial project of critiquing universalized Eurocentric frameworks, and is committed to a radical ontology of openness and relationality. Going beyond current top-down models of inclusion, diversity, and other representations of the global, ‘worlding’ critiques radical alterity in favour of a pluriversality attendant to entanglements, difficult histories, and power relations. It grounds the global within local and transculturally/transnationally intertwined worlds, and foregrounds the possibility of continuously making and re-making new worlds through cultural production.

Contributions to the series will come from WPC members, and the project’s roster of international interlocutors and collaborators. It will consist of approximately twenty individually or collaboratively authored chapbooks, comprising the following four registers:

1. Worlding Concepts (an anthology of key terminology)
2. Academy Volumes
3. Troubling Public Cultures: Case Studies
4. Companions for Thinking and Doing

The WPC publication series is produced through the generous funding of ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, BMBF, NWO, SSHRC, and the National Museum of World Cultures, Netherlands.

Distribution

Print versions should be available world-wide through local bookstores and various online platforms, but if you have any problems ordering them, please contact us at publishing@ici-berlin.org

Published Titles in the Series: