We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and we welcome disabled applicants for all roles. We are committed to ensuring fair treatment throughout the recruitment process, guided by the Equality Act 2010 and the University’s policies and procedures.
We encourage you to share your information so that we can make the necessary adjustments to meet your needs and enable you to participate fully in the process to the best of your ability. Whether during the recruitment process or during your employment, sharing will help us to help you.
If you wish to discuss any reasonable adjustments necessary to help support your application, you can contact us at any point in the process by email recruitment@southampton.ac.uk or telephone 02380 592750.
Disability Confident Leader
We are accredited as a Disability Confident Leader, details are available Disability Confident | Human Resources | University of Southampton.
As a Disability Confident Leader, we operate an ‘offer an interview’ Scheme. If you have applied under this scheme and meet the essential criteria for the role, you will automatically be invited to interview. When you opt-in to this scheme, it is solely for the purpose of the interview guarantee, and we will not assume nor infer any reasonable adjustments you may need if you are employed.
University of Southampton eRecruit Accessibility Statement
Our eRecruit system, provided by Stonefish Software, is partially accessible.
We take accessibility seriously and welcome as many people as possible to be able to use this website and are actively working to make the site more accessible and compliant with World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) WAI’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1.
The Stonefish Platform is developed to meet the WCAG AA standards.
What you can do
- Understand the website text
- Change colours and contrast levels
- Zoom in up to 400% without the text spilling off the screen
- Navigate all the content using just a keyboard
- Use the clear focus indicator
- Images have alternative text
- Understand hyperlink destinations from the text description
- Navigate to all headings on the page using assistive technology
- Use text to speech tools to access content.
We are working on improving accessibility, currently there’s no ‘Skip Main Content’ option available when using the keyboard to improve the user experience. This means additional tab strokes are required to navigate the page, which impacts the user experience. This contravenes WCAG2.1 – 2.4.1 and is a third-party issue. We are, however, communicating with the software provider regarding this function and the facility will be available in the next upgrade of the system.