Accessibility Statement

Harvard Reference Generator is intended to be usable by students, researchers, lecturers and professional writers with different devices, access needs and levels of technical experience.

We aim to design and maintain the Harvard citation generator, in-text citation forms, university guides, reference-list tools and downloadable content in line with recognised accessibility principles and to work towards the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, WCAG 2.2 Level AA.

Harvard Reference Generator aims to provide:

• keyboard-accessible navigation and controls;
• logical heading structures;
• clear form labels and instructions;
• understandable validation and error messages;
• visible keyboard focus;
• sufficient text and interface contrast;
• zoom and text resizing without loss of essential content;
• meaningful link text;
• alternatives for meaningful images;
• content that does not rely only on colour, position or shape;
• reduced unnecessary motion;
• usable citation forms on mobile and desktop devices; and
• readable Word, PDF and text exports where technically possible.

Accessibility work is continuing across long citation forms, autocomplete and source-search controls, complex dropdown menus, interactive reference-list features, exported documents, cookie-consent controls and third-party embedded services.

Some third-party pages, social-media embeds, external documents and services are outside Harvard Reference Generator's direct control. We will choose more accessible options where reasonably possible and provide an alternative when a significant barrier is identified.

This Accessibility Statement will be reviewed after significant interface changes and at least once each year as part of an accessibility check.