In order to make this site accessible to as many users as possible, it has been built to meet the W3Cs Accesssiblity Guidelines

The College is committed to the principle of inclusive learning. We believe that recognising, valuing and responding to the differences in how learners learn can improve the quality of learning for everyone.

Accessibility Features
The provision for the website to be viewed in Internet Explorer or Netscape and by users of Apple Macintosh computers as well as PC’s Text Size
The website has the facility to increase text size through your internet browser, see below for how to change the size.

Internet Explorer
Select “Page” from the browser toolbar
Select “Text size” from the drop-down menu
Select your preferred text size

Mozilla Firefox
Select “View” from the browser toolbar
Select “Text size” from the drop-down menu
Select your preferred text size

Images
The College website has been designed to be compatible with screen readers.

All images contain alternative text.

Style sheets and colours
This site uses software called Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to control all of the presentation and layout. If your browser or browsing device does not support style sheets, the content of each page will still be readable and clearly structured.

Colours can be changed by using your own custom style sheets or browser settings. The BBC has an excellent guide on how to do this for various browsers and systems. http://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/index.shtml

Standards compliance
The pages on this site conform at a minimum to Level A compliance as specified by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and endorsed by the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB). This site also meets the majority of Level AA and AAA requirements. Most of the pages validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional and use structured semantic mark-up [to ensure that the code will work correctly on the majority of web browsers] and our CSS also validates the pages [to ensure that there are no errors that may affect viewing]. We are committed to providing services online in line with the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) 2005, as required by the Disability Rights Commission (DRC).