Accessibility

This is the Van Reeuwijk Lab website, run by the lab in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London. We try to make the site work well for everyone, and aim to follow Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AA.

What's in place

• You can navigate the whole site by keyboard, including a "Skip to main content" link as the first focusable element on every page.
• Every focusable element shows a clearly-visible focus ring when reached by keyboard, in both light and dark modes.
• Page structure uses semantic landmarks (nav, main, footer) and a logical heading outline so screen readers can move through pages efficiently.
• The mobile navigation menu is keyboard-operable and announces its open / closed state to assistive technology.
• Equations render through KaTeX as MathML, so screen readers read them as mathematics rather than as character salad.
• Filter result counts on the publications, open-science, and people pages are announced as polite live regions when the filters change.
• The animated browser demos respect prefers-reduced-motion: when your operating system reports the preference, they start paused, and you choose explicitly when to start.
• All images on the site carry meaningful alternative text.
• The site is responsive — text reflows comfortably on mobile, desktop, and at high zoom; the layout follows the browser's light / dark colour-scheme preference.

If something isn't working for you

Email Maarten van Reeuwijk at m.vanreeuwijk@imperial.ac.uk with the URL where you ran into the problem and a short description of what happened. We're happy to provide content in another format on request.

Last reviewed on 2026-05-06.