Accessibility Statement

Accessibility statement for Hereward College

This accessibility statement applies to the website https://www.hereward.ac.uk/ as part of the public sector.

This website is run by Hereward College.

We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:

• change colours, contrast levels and fonts
  - Using own accessibility tools, operating system and/or browser configuration
• zoom in up to 300% without the text spilling off the screen
  - Using own accessibility tools, operating system and/or browser configuration
• navigate most of the website using just a keyboard
• navigate most of the website using speech recognition software
• listen to most of the website using a screen reader (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)
• use a site-map to navigate the website

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.

How accessible this website is

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

• Most PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software – have summarised documents

Feedback and contact information

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

• email: enquiries@hereward.ac.uk
• call: 02476 461 231
• Address:
  Hereward College,
  Bramston Crescent,
  Tile Hill,
  Coventry,
  CV4 9SW 

We’ll consider your request and get back to you in 7 days. If you cannot view the map on our ‘contact’ page, call 02476 461 231 or email enquiries@hereward.ac.uk 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, contact: 

• email: enquiries@hereward.ac.uk
• call: 02476 461 231
• Address:
  Hereward College,
  Bramston Crescent,
  Tile Hill,
  Coventry,
  CV4 9SW 

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).

Contacting us by phone or visiting us in person

Find out how to contact us https://www.hereward.ac.uk/contact/

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

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

Compliance Status

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

Non-accessible content

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

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations

Known limitations for Hereward College:

• 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. Any PDFs or Word documents currently on the website are being reviewed and where possible we are doing our best to make sure everything is in text on the web pages rather than in PDF format.

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

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. 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.

What we’re doing to improve accessibility

We will limit the use of PDF where possible to avoid the limitations of accessibility which cannot be resolved on a PDF.  

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared on 24/03/2023 It was last reviewed on 24/03/2023. This website was last tested on 24/03/2023.

The test was carried out by our own testing and through automated software.

We manually tested pages with JAWS software periodically whilst also making sure all site components were tested by scanning the HTML elements and attributes against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 A and AA success criteria with over 400 automated tests to help us detect accessibility issues.

We used the following software tools to test all pages:

https://www.powermapper.com/products/sortsite/checks/accessibility-checks/ 

https://www.audioeye.com/

You can read the full accessibility test report for Hereward College at:

https://try.powermapper.com/demo/Report/cef31ed8-53d3-4da1-aa9f-8bf99e8c4828

https://www.audioeye.com/scan/results/?uuid=14d16a51-d470-4a30-9fbb-291d91f9cbb2&&url=https://www.hereward.ac.uk/&&partner=false