Accessibility Statement

Accessibility statement for cadcol.ac.uk

This accessibility statement applies to the Cadbury College website – www.cadcol.ac.uk

We are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of technology or ability.

We are actively working to increase the accessibility and usability of our website and in doing so adhere to the standards and guidelines

Cadbury College owns cadcol.ac.uk.  The website is hosted and maintained by the College. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:

• Zoom in up to 300% without the text spilling off the screen
• Navigate most of the website using just a keyboard
• The College website has installed an accessibility menu widget from Userway.org which provides additional personalisation control for colour contrast, text size, cursor control and other accessibility features. The Userway plugin, which users can enact by clicking the icon in the top right hand corner, will automatically appear unless the user has disabled the feature. This enables you to select a range of options to make the website more accessible, customised to your needs.

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

How accessible this website is

What are we doing?

To help us make the Cadbury College website a positive place for everyone, we’ve been using the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2. These guidelines explain how to make web content more accessible for people with disabilities, and user-friendly for everyone.

The guidelines have three levels of accessibility (A, AA and AAA). We’ve chosen Level A as the starting point for the Cadbury College website.

We know some parts of this website are not fully accessible:

• most older PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software
• live video streams do not have captions

If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille:

email [email protected]

We’ll consider your request and get back to you in 5 working days.

If you cannot view the map on our ‘contact us’ page, call or email us at [email protected] for directions.

REPORTING ACCESSIBILITY PROBLEMS WITH THIS WEBSITE

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, you can report any concerns by emailing [email protected]

How are we doing?

We’ve worked hard on the Cadbury College website and believe we’ve achieved our goal of Level A accessibility. We monitor the website regularly to maintain this, and we are always looking to improve the accessibility of this website.

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).

COMPLIANCE STATUS

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard, due to the non-compliances and exemptions listed below.

NON-ACCESSIBLE CONTENT

The content listed below is non-accessible for the following reasons.

NON-COMPLIANCE WITH THE ACCESSIBILITY REGULATIONS

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

PDFs and other documents

Some of our PDFs and Word documents are essential to providing our services. For example, we have PDFs with information on how users can access our services, and forms published as Word documents.

The accessibility regulations do not require us to fix PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018 if they’re not essential to providing our services.

Any new PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards.

Live video

We do not plan to add captions to live video streams because live video is exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations.

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

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

This website is fully compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.2 AA standard.

Preparation of this Accessibility Website

This Accessibility Statement was prepared on 11^th March 2021. It was last reviewed on 23^th October 2024. The website was last tested internally in September 2024.

Where possible use an up-to-date browser

By using an up-to-date browser (the program you use to access the internet) you will have access to a much richer set of options to aid you as you navigate your way around this site.

The standard browsers we would recommend are below with links to install each of them:

Firefox
Chrome
Safari (MAC only)
Internet explorer
Edge

Once installed, each will bring its own selection of accessibility options and may allow further options via the use of plug-ins. For more details see the Accessibility page for each one:

• Firefox
• Chrome
• Safari (Mac only)
• Internet Explorer
• Edge

Options in our site

Alternative Style

Please choose a link below to change the way the site looks. Once set, the site will remain in this style for up to 30 days or until you select a different option.

• Black on white version
• White on black version
• Reset to standard style

We endeavour to ensure the site looks correct is these different styles but because of the constantly changing nature of the site and its content, this may not always be possible. If you do spot anything which doesn’t look quite right, then please let us know

Keyboard Short Cuts / Access Keys

Different browsers use different keystrokes to activate access key shortcuts, as shown below:

Options in your browser

Most modern browsers all share the most common accessibility tools. Here is a list of useful features:

Incremental Search
Incremental Search allows you to progressively search a web page for a particular word or phrase on a page. To enable this on your browser, press and hold Ctrl/Command and then tap F. This will open a box to type your search into. As you type, the matches will be highlighted on the page for you.

Spatial Navigation
Hitting tab will jump you to each of the items you can interact with on any page. Holding the SHIFT key and then pressing tab will take you to the previous item.

Caret Navigation (Internet Explorer and Firefox only)
Instead of using a mouse to select text and move around within a webpage, you can use standard navigation keys on your keyboard: Home, End, Page Up, Page Down & the arrow keys. This feature is named after the caret, or cursor, that appears when you edit a document.

To turn this feature on, press the F7 key at the top of your keyboard and choose whether to enable the caret on the tab you are viewing or all your tabs.

Space bar
Pressing the space bar on a web page will move the page you are viewing down to the next visible part of the page.

Text fonts
Depending on your browser, you can override all fonts on the site to one that is easier for you to read. Options can be found in your browser’s settings/preferences.

Change Font in Firefox

Change Font in Chrome

Change Font in Safari

Change Font in Internet Explorer

Change Font in Edge

Enlarge your view
You can activate the browser zoom via these keyboard shortcuts

Zoom in Firefox

Zoom in Chrome

Zoom in Safari

Zoom in Internet Explorer

Zoom in Edge

Options on your computer

To zoom your entire computer screen

Apple Mac and Windows operating system both contain options to enlarge your view of your screen:
Windows
Apple OS X

Make your computer read the site aloud

This website has been built with screen readers in mind. Menus, pictures and inputs will have the correct tags and mark up to complement your chosen screen reader.

We have tested with following tools:

NVDA (NonVisual Desktop Access) is a free screen reader for computers running on the Windows operating system.
The latest version can be downloaded for FREE here (on this page you may be asked for a voluntary donation, if you do not wish to donate, click “skip donation this time”).

WAVE is developed and made available as a free community service by WebAIM. Originally launched in 2001, WAVE has been used to evaluate the accessibility of millions of web pages.

Microsoft Windows Narrator is available in most versions of Microsoft Windows operating systems and reads text on the screen aloud and describes events like error messages so you can use your PC without a display. To find out more and how to enable it on your version, please click here.

Control your computer with your voice

Apple Mac and Windows operating systems both provide ways to control your computer with voice recognition:
Windows
Apple OS X

Third party voice recognition software is available too.

In summary

We are committed to providing you access to our most valuable resources. If you do spot anything which doesn’t look quite right or have any suggestions for how we might improve our services, then please do let us know.

Reporting accessibility problems with this website

Please contact us at [email protected] if you need further assistance with accessibility issues – for instance, if you

• need information in a different format, such as accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille

• encounter any problems not outlined on this page

• think we are not meeting accessibility requirements