Welcome to the accessibility page for the Lyell Collection. The Geological Society of London aims to make its online journal and book content accessible to all our visitors and improvements to the site will be made on an ongoing basis. Our commitment to this endeavour reflects the growing customer need for accessibility to our content in order to best support the science and communities we serve.
Please find below some information about the formats in which our content is currently available.
File formats
Our journal and book content is available from https://www.lyellcollection.org in full-article HTML and PDF formats. However, content older than 2007 for books and 2000 for journals is HTML abstract plus full-article PDF. All files are free of digital rights management (DRM).
Testing software used
Testing was carried out using Adobe Acrobat DC, NVDA, VoiceOver, and the Select and Speak - Text to Speech (Google Chrome extension) in Windows 10. We do not endorse any specific software.
HTML
Our HTML journal articles are accessible to screen readers and can be magnified in the browser. We use alternative image text when possible, however, our research content does not currently use alternative image text because the images are scientific figures, which have separate explanatory captions. We started producing accessible mathematical equations using MathJax and MathML in January 2019, prior to that our mathematical equations are in image file format.
Our PDF files are accessible to screen readers.
Accessibility standards
Our technology partner, HighWire, has an ongoing strategy to support accessibility as defined in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 (level A) (https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/) and Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (29 U.S.C. §794 (d)) (https://www.section508.gov/content/learn/laws-and-policies). HighWire annually audits its book and journal site products against these standards. Standard HighWire pages for book and journal sites either ‘support’ or ‘support with some exceptions’ VPAT (https://www.itic.org/policy/accessibility/vpat/) Section 1194.22 Web-based intranet and Internet information and applications where applicable.
The Geological Society of London is currently auditing its publisher-produced pages for conformance to the latest WCAG 2.1 guidelines. The Society is also working towards completing an international VPAT (https://www.itic.org/policy/accessibility/vpat) by end of 2020.
Contact information
If you have questions, comments or requests regarding accessibility or the content of this page, please contact us by email at sales@geolsoc.org.uk or telephone +44 1225 445046 if outside the UK or 01225 445046 within the UK. We will endeavour to respond to your message within 2 working days.
This page was reviewed and updated February 2020