ETD Administrator

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Introduction

All researchers, regardless of ability, need access to scholarly information. Clarivate is committed to providing all our users with a fully accessible experience for research, teaching and learning.

At Clarivate, we make every effort to ensure that our platforms – including ETD Administrator – can be used by everyone. ETD Administrator is continually designed and developed to meet Level AA of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.2).

Accessibility features and gaps

Features

Users of ETD Administrator should be able to:

Navigate most of the application including forms-based pages designed to collect information about authors and their work using just a keyboard.
Track visual focus while using Tab / Shift+Tab to step forward and backward through interactive elements on the page.
Go directly to main content areas on the page using ‘Skip to main content’ links.
Listen to most of the website using a screen reader.
Navigate most of the website using speech recognition software.
Intuit the action or destination provided by a link, from the link text and context.
Take advantage of heading tags and ordered/unordered lists to intuit content structure.

Gaps

There may be some parts of this website that are not fully accessible:

Most of the text can be magnified up to 200% without loss of functionality. At a zoom level of 400%, content may get lost, overflow, overlap, or become truncated.
Horizontal scrolling becomes necessary as you zoom . . . starting at around 200%.
A small number of features are challenging to navigate using only the keyboard.
Some interface elements lack clear programmatic labels, roles, or values, which may hinder assistive technologies from accurately interpreting their function.
Most content structure is programmatically conveyed, though some exceptions like unmarked visual tables and lack of association in some content.

Technical Information about this site’s accessibility

ETD Administrator is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with:

Compliance level and report

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines v2.2 at levels A and AA. See the full Accessibility Conformance Report (VPAT 2.5 and WCAG) for ETD Administrator for details.

Accessibility of this platform

More about what’s good

Using a screen reader like JAWS, users can have page content read aloud as they engage with interactive controls like buttons, links, menus, and input fields. They can also Tab (go forward) or Shift+Tab (go backward) to move through those interactive controls. Screen reader users get a sense for the structure of an ETD Administrator page, as correctly coded heading and list tags are read aloud.

Opportunities for improvement

ETD Administrator is not currently designed for responsive behavior. This means a couple of things:
- As you adjust your browser’s zoom feature to increments over 100%, you notice that page content begins to get ‘clipped’ in the browser view…meaning you cannot see all the content on the page without scrolling horizontally. The need to scroll horizontally in addition to vertically is a poor experience.
- Page content does not re-flow. For example, the page may have content presented in two columns. As you drag one edge of your browser window, narrowing your view, text and image content in the second column should ‘re-flow’ beneath content in the first column. Image and text elements should down-size/shrink, as appropriate, to fit the available space as you approach the mobile display you experience on a tablet or phone. This ‘responsive’ behavior is not the experience in ETD Administrator today. We plan to introduce a responsive design in a future release.
Page titles are the first element read aloud when you access a page. Titles orient you as you move through the pages of an application. Each page should have a unique title. Currently, they do not.

How we tested this platform

The accessibility of ETD Administrator is a continual effort at Clarivate. Accessibility standards are built into our design, style guides and included as part of requirements in our software development and quality assurance pipeline.

ETD Administrator code is checked for accessibility using a range of automated and manual checks including but not limited to:

TPGI’s Color Contrast Analyzer
Deque’s axe DevTools accessibility testing tool
ANDI (Accessible Name & Description Inspector) tool
Chrome Developer Tools
Keyboard-access manual testing and assessment
NVDA (NonVisual Desktop Access) screen reader.
ETD Administrator is tested on the latest versions of Chrome and on a Windows computer.

The website was last tested on December 2025. The test was carried out internally at Clarivate. Accessibility testing is part of our ongoing development lifecycle in addition to periodic dedicated reviews.

What we’re doing to improve accessibility at Clarivate

Accessibility of our tools and content is an ongoing effort at Clarivate. We’re committed to working with the community to ensure we continue to meet our customers’ needs. Learn more about Accessibility in our Academic and Government Products.

Some of our ongoing efforts includes:

Maintaining a network of trained accessibility champions, providing knowledge-sharing through the cross-functional Accessibility Council and access to external experts
Integrating accessibility at the design stage, building accessibility throughout the development lifecycle
Providing accessibility awareness training for all colleagues, and dedicated training for developers and quality assurance engineers, encouraging team members to pursue certifications
Accessibility is embedded in our development process. Our acceptance of new features and functionality requires compliance with WCAG 2.2 AA
Consulting with accessibility experts for ongoing consultation and 3rd party audits
Growing our accessibility program with dedicated in-house experts, including IAAP Web Accessibility Specialist (WAS) Certified and DHS Trusted Tester Certified colleagues
Continuously making improvements to remediate known issues and customer cases
Working with our content providers to improve the accessibility of content on our platforms

Support and feedback

If you have difficulty accessing specific Clarivate content or features you can contact us using the links provided below. Our support services will respond within three days and are available to accommodate the communication needs of end users with disabilities. We will work with you to identify the best option for remediation, subject to content licensing restrictions and technical capability.

Current customers: submit questions or issues by opening a case using the Support Portal or via disspub@proquest.com.

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This accessibility statement was prepared in January 2026.

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