Accessibility

Accessibility Statement

Bridgend College is committed to ensuring that our website is as accessible as possible for the widest range of audiences. We are continually working to ensure our site conveys information that is available to everyone including those with physical, sensory and learning difficulties.

We are working towards making all pages of this site W3C WCAG (World Wide Web Consortium Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) compliant. This means that we are continuously updating our content to meet with all priority 1 and 2 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

 Overview

Here are some of the steps we have taken (or are presently undertaking):

  • Use of a san serif font to ensure that text is easier to read
  • Text descriptions for images that convey information (alt tags)
  • We provide alternative formats for media such as text transcripts for video
  • We avoid the use of images of text wherever possible
  • Site navigation is consistent and predictable.
  • Headings highlight sections of text
  • Sentences are short with the meaning at the beginning
  • Links use meaningful text
  • Forms can be navigated using the tab key.

 Where to start

Use the sitemap to get an overview of what is on the site.

 Search facility

A search box appears at the top of each page. To get the best results use keywords, they will find better results. You can also use direct quotes to search for an exact phrase.

 Adjusting the Appearence of the Site

Modern browsers now have the functionality for the user to decide how web pages are displayed, this is a significant help for people who need specific formatting to be able to access text.

 Internet Explorer & Firefox

To change the size of the window of the site

On the browser View menu select 'Full screen' or press F11, press it again to return to normal view

To quickly adjust size of text

To increase size:

To decrease size:

Hold down Ctrl and press +

Or

Hold down Ctrl and roll mouse wheel forward

Hold Down Ctrl and press –

Or

Hold down Ctrl and roll mouse wheel back

 


 Firefox 3.6: Set your own fonts and sizes for all websites

1. click on Tools, then options

2. then click on the content icon

Firefox options

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. Choose your preferred font and size

4. click on the advanced button

Firefox fonts

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Untick the box labelled “Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above”.

 Internet Explorer: Set your own fonts for all web sites

1. Click on tools then select Internet Options

Internet Explorer options

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Click on fonts and select a web page font

Internet Explorer fonts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click ok.

 Firefox 3.6: Set your own colours for web pages

1. click on tools menu and select options

2. select content icon, click on the colours button

Firefox colours

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. Set your preferred couours for text, background and links, (you may also wish to prevent links from being underlined as this can make some text difficult to read)

4. Untick the box labelled “use system colours

5. Untick the box ,abelled “Allow pages to choose their own colours, instead of my selections above

 Internet Explorer: set your own Colours for web pages

1. Click on Tools then select Internet Options

2. click on colours and untick the box labelled “Use windows Colours”

Internet explorer colours

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. Choose your colours for text, background and links by clicking the buttons, click OK

4. Now click on Accessibility from the Internet options dialoge, and tick the three boxes labelled

Internet explorer formatting

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click ok.

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