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Providing an accessible website
This accessibility statement applies to www.southampton-city.ac.uk
We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:
We’ve also made the website text as simple as possible to understand.
AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability.
We know some parts of this website are not fully accessible:
If you need information on this website in a different format:
We will consider your request and get back to you in 10 working days.
If you cannot view the map on our ‘contact us’ page, call or email us for directions.
We’re always looking to improve the accessibility of this website. If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we are not meeting accessibility requirements, contact the Marketing Team by email at marketing@southampton-city.ac.uk.
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 are not happy with how we respond to your complaint, contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS).
City College Southampton 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 partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard, due to the non-compliances and the exemptions listed below.
The content listed below is non-accessible for the following reasons:
PDFs and other documents Our website contains many PDFs that are not accessible. Non-HTML documents published on or after 23 September 2018 must have an accessible format. This includes:
Our website contains content and information that is provided and published by many teams around the college. Further work is required to get this content updated to compliant standards. We are currently undertaking a separate internal audit to review these documents and updating them or providing accessible alternatives. We plan to complete this by December 2023.
Some documents, such as the prospectus, are designed to be printed and are not accessible. The information contained within this document can be found on this website.
Video Our video content does not include captions or audio descriptions. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.2.2 and 1.2.3 (time-based media). We plan to fix this by December 2023.
Application Form There are some issues filling in our on-line application form when you are using a screen reader on a laptop/desktop computer. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 2.1.1 (keyboard) and 2.4.3 (focus order).
Our form is built and hosted through third-party software and ‘skinned’ to look like our website. Our contract is due for renewal and the issues will be fixed by April 2024.
PDFs and other 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.
This accessibilty statement was prepared on 8 March 2023 by the College’s internal marketing team. The statement was last reviewed on 4 September 2023.
The sitewide audit was carried out in February 2023 by Clive Loseby from Access by Design, with some additional support from two members of Access by Design’s Team of Disabled Testers. The test was conducted using a combination of automated testing (Sortsite) and manual tests across the landing page, main page types and following a frequent user journey.