Leicester Adult Skills & Learning College: Accessibility Statement

We are committed to giving access to as many people as possible, and to help achieve this, the site has been built to comply with internationally accepted standards.

Resizable Text

The text across the site is resizable. We have provided this function from the three buttons shown at the top of your screen.

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You can also change the text size using your browser. Instructions on how to resize text in different browsers. (This will open in a new window).

Changeable Colours

It is also possible to change the screen colours used from within your browser. Instructions on how to change your screen colours. (This will open in a new window).

Standards Compliance

• Valid XHTML. The site has been written using valid XHTML 1.0 Strict
• Valid CSS. The site has been written using valid CSS2.
• Accessibility. The main website pages have been built to comply with WCAG 1.0 WCAG 1.0 AA standards.
• The Course finder is not yet fully accessible, although we plan to improve this over the next few months.

Presentation

• Style sheets have been used in order to separate the content from the presentation. The content is still readable if style sheets are turned off or unavailable.
• Alternative text for images. All content images on the site use the alternative text attribute (often called alt text). This allows the image to be understood by text only browsers and assistive technologies such as screen readers. Images used for decorative purposes only have been kept to a minimum and when used they have been given an empty alt attribute. This means screenreaders will ignore these images completely.
• Plain English. The site is free of jargon using plain, simple English. Sentences are kept short using simple, everyday English.

Navigational Aids

• Search box. There is a search box on most pages that allows you to search the website.
• Site Map. If you are having trouble finding anything on the site there is a full site map available from the bottom navigation.
• Breadcrumb trail. A breadcrumb trail has been provided to show you the path from the homepage to where you are in the site. This is available once inside the main sections of the site.
• There is a clear link to the home page from all pages of the site.
• Links. Every care has been taken to ensure links make sense out of context. Title attributes have also been used where appropriate to provide further information about the target of the link. You will also be warned if clicking on a link will open a file or web page in a new browser window. The warning will either be in the link itself, the text immediately following the link. It is also possible to navigate through the links using the "tab" function on your keyboard.

Browser Compatibility

The pages have been tested using various browsers to ensure that the information contained within the site is accessible to a range of different browsers.
We do however recommend, that to get the best experience from your visit to our site, you view the site in Internet Explorer version 6 or above. Javascript is used in some places throughout the site, so in order to get the best experience you should have Javascript enabled. The site is however fully accessible with Javascript turned off.

If you have any problems accessing the site please inform us so that the problem can be rectified. Any other comments relating to the website are also welcome, so please get in touch with any questions or comments.