Accessibility Statement

The Wakefield College website has been designed to be equally accessible to all web users. This statement gives information about accessibility features, and levels of conformance to industry standards.

Access Keys
Access keys are keyboard shortcuts that provide links to important areas of the site. Windows users can press ALT + an access key, followed by RETURN for those using Microsoft Internet Explorer. Apple Macintosh users can press CONTROL + an access key.

This website uses the following UK Government standard access keys:

S - Skip navigation
1 - Home page
2 - What's new
3 - Site map
4 - Search
5 - Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
6 - Help
7 - Complaints procedure
8 - Terms and conditions
9 - Feedback form
0 - Accessibility statement

The following additional access keys are also available:

Access key M - Skip to main menu
Access Key D - Disability Statement
Access Key N - Latest News

Multimedia
We host a number of different video clips on the site both to give people a wider view of our College and to make our content more accessible to people who find it easier to view rather than read content.

We have included these clips as Flash video which are suitable for a variety of different connection types and speeds. What we have not done, owing to cost implications, is to provide transcripts of each of the video clips. This policy will be reviewed at a later date.

BrowseAloud
Our website offers a link to BrowseAloud. This is a free tool that speech enables website content. It offers a practical website access service to people with reading difficulties and those who find it easier to listen to, rather than read the content of our website.

It assists in the navigations of our website for the following sections of the population:

• Those with low literacy and reading skills
• Those where English is not the first language
• Dyslexic people
• Those with mild visual impairment

  

Standards compliance
All pages on this site conform to the following standards where possible:

• W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Single A. All pages on the site have been reviewed and comply with all priority 1 guidelines to the best of our knowledge.
• XHTML 1.0 Transitional. All pages on the site have been validated against the XHTML 1.0 Recommendation.
• CSS. All style sheets have been validated using the W3C CSS Validation Service

Known browser support
This website operates on a wide range of browsers.

PC operating systems:

Internet Explorer 6,
Internet Explorer 5.5
Internet Explorer 5
Mozilla Firefox 1
Netscape Navigator 7.0
Opera 7.5
Lynx

Mac operating systems:

Safari 1.0.1
Internet Explorer 5.2
Mozilla Firebird 0.7

Feedback
Wakefield College welcomes your feedback and suggestions for improvement to our website. Please send your comments to webmaster@wakefield.ac.uk.