Accessibility statement for West Nottinghamshire College

This current web site is in review and will be made obsolete in 2025. A new replacement site is being created and it will be fully accessible. We aim to have this in place in 2025.

Introduction

West Nottinghamshire College is committed to making its website, platforms and resources are accessible in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

This accessibility statement applies to content published on the www.wnc.ac.uk domain run by West Nottinghamshire College.

This website is run by West Nottinghamshire College We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:

change colours, contrast levels and fonts using browser or device settings
zoom in up to 400% without the text spilling off the screen
navigate much of the website using a keyboard
listen to content using a screen reader.

AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use for you.

We’ve also made the website text as simple as possible to understand.

How accessible this website is

We know some parts of this website aren’t fully accessible:

We cannot fully guarantee that:

All content, activities and interfaces are navigable using just a keyboard
All files and content uploaded by authors is fully accessible to screen reader software
All non-text content has a text alternative
Video content is accompanied by a transcript, captions, audio description or British Sign Language
Text won’t reflow in a single column when you change the size of the browser window
You can modify the line height or spacing of all text
A colour contrast of 3:1.

Issues with documents, including Word files, PowerPoints, PDFs:

Many of our older documents don’t meet accessibility standards - for example, they may not be marked up so that they’re accessible to a screen reader.

Issues with images, video and audio:

Live video streams don’t have captions
Older recorded video don’t have captions.

Third-party content

Our website contains third-party content. We do not have control over and are not responsible for the accessibility of this content, but we make best endeavours to work with the third-party to improve its accessibility. This may include:

Links to non-West Nottinghamshire College websites
Content/functionality on our website
Content hosted on other websites, such as social media sites.

Feeback and contact information

We’re always looking to improve the accessibility of this website. If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, contact us at enquiries@wnc.ac.uk or call 01623627191.

If you need information on this website in a different format e.g. accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille, contact us at enquiries@wnc.ac.uk or call 01623627191.

In your message please include:

The web address (URL) of the content
Your email address and name
The format you require.

We’ll consider your request and get back to you in 7 days.

If you can’t view the map on our ‘contact us’ page, contact us at enquiries@wnc.ac.uk or call 01623627191 and ask for directions.

Enforcement procedure

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is responsible for enforcing the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018 (the ‘accessibility regulations’). If you’re not happy with how we respond to your complaint, contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS).

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

West Nottinghamshire College is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No.2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

Compliance status

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.2 AA standard, due to the non-compliance and/or the exemptions listed below:

Non-compliance:

Some text has insufficient contrast. This fails WCAG 2.2 success criterion 1.4.3 (Contrast)
Some touch targets are too small. This fails WCAG 2.2 success criterion 2.5.8 (Target Size)
Image galleries and carousels cannot be navigated with a keyboard. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 2.1.1 (Keyboard)
On a few pages the keyboard navigation gives rise to a strange order. This fails WCAG 2.2 success criterion 2.4.3 (Focus order)
Some elements do not have sufficient and/or suitable information for screen reader users. This fails WCAG 2.2 success criterion 2.4.6 (Headings and labels)
Some interactive elements do not have a visible indicator of focus when navigating via a keyboard. This fails WCAG 2.2 success criterion 2.4.7 (Focus Visible)
Some pages have no skip navigation available. This fails WCAG 2.2 success criterion 2.4.1 (Bypass blocks)
Some images on some pages contain missing or incorrect alternative text, some of these images are also links. This fails WCGA 2.2 success criterion 1.1.1
Some PDFs and word documents may not have been structured correctly for a screen reader. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 4.1.2 (name, role value)
Some pages contain tables that do not have headers or use tables for layout purposes. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.3.1 (Information relationships).

Content that’s not within the scope of the accessibility regulations

Pre-recorded Audio and Video content published before 23 September 2020

Pre-recorded audio and video content is unlikely to be accompanied with a text alternative, captions, audio description or sign language interpretation. This doesn’t meet the following success criterion:

(non-text content)
1.2.1 (audio-only and video-only - pre-recorded)
1.2.2 (captions – pre-recorded)
1.2.3 (audio description or media alternative - pre-recorded)
1.2.5 (audio description - pre-recorded)
1.2.6 (sign language - pre-recorded)
1.2.7 (extended audio description - pre-recorded)
1.2.8 (media alternative - pre-recorded)

We don’t plan to create a text alternative, captions, audio description or sign language interpretation to pre-recorded audio or video content that was published before 23 September 2020 because pre-recorded audio and video content published before 23 September 2020 are exempt from the regulations.

Live Audio and Video

Live audio and video streams don’t have captions. This doesn’t meet WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.2.4 (captions - live).

We don’t plan to add captions to live video streams because live video is exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations.

Old pdfs

The accessibility regulations don’t require us to fix PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018 if they’re not essential to providing our services. For example, we don’t plan to fix meeting minutes from long past meetings.

What we’re doing to improve accessibility

We are dedicated to improving the accessibility of this web site for all users. To do so we will:

Provide guidance to authors on designing and creating accessible content in the site
Assess, and redevelop where it is possible, practicable and cost-efficient, existing features, integrations, interfaces and developments based on the WCAG 2.1 success criterion
Remove or restrict customisations on the web site to reduce the creation of inaccessible spaces and content
Assess proposed new features, integrations, interfaces and developments based on the WCAG 2.2 success criterion.