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Accessibility Statement

Accessibility statement for don.ac.uk

This accessibility statement applies to the Doncaster College website, don.ac.uk.

This website is run by DN Colleges Group. 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 browser or device setings
  • zoom in up to 400% without the text spilling off the screen
  • navigate most of the website using just a keyboard or speech recognition software
  • listen to most of the website using a screen reader (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)

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:

  • some of our older PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software
  • live video streams do not have captions

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:

We’ll consider your request and get back to you in 7 days.

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 us via our Feedback and Complaints page or email webteam@dncolleges.ac.uk.

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).

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

Doncaster 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

The website has been tested against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standard.

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.2 AA standard, due to the non-compliances listed below.

Non-accessible content

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations

PDFs and other documents

Some of our PDFs and Word documents are essential to providing our services. For example, we have PDFs with our policy and procedural information which may not always be accessible to screen reader software.

In addition, some documents are information brochures which present further information than what is available on the parent web page. We are currently working with each content provider and area to convert these documents into web page formats or accessibly structured PDF documents. These are listed here:

Internally produced documents
  • Each PDF listed on the Financial Support for School Leavers web page. These fail WCAG standards 1.3.1 (Info and Relationships) due to incorrect heading ordering and missing tags on form fields, and 2.4.2 – Page Titled due to a missing document title.These will be replaced by an online web page version by end May 2025.
  • Each PDF listed on the Financial Support for Adults web page. These fail WCAG standards 1.3.1 (Info and Relationships) due to incorrect heading ordering and missing tags on form fields, and 2.4.2 – Page Titled due to a missing document title.These will be replaced by an online web page version by end May 2025.
  • Annual Sponsorship Packages, accessed from the Information for Businesses web page. This fails WCAG standard 1.1.1 for missing alternative text or description of the images used at the top of the document.This will be replaced by an online web page version by end April 2025.
  • Children’s University Membership Form, accessed from the Information for Parents web page. This fails WCAG standards 1.3.1 (Info and Relationships) due to incorrect heading ordering, 1.4.3 for poor colour contrast of text on the first page, and 1.1.1 for missing alternative text or description of the images used at the top of the document.This will be replaced by an online web form by end April 2025.
  • Each PDF listed on the Safeguarding and Prevent web page. These fail WCAG standard 2.4.2 – Page Titled due to a missing document title.These will be replaced by an online web page version by end May 2025.

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

Live video

We do not currently plan to add captions to live video streams (such as during our larger events like Graduation and Award Ceremonies) because live video is exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations. We will continue to provide captions and transcriptions for all non-live video content that is uploaded to our website.

What we’re doing to improve accessibility

  • By end May 2025 we will have updated documents listed in the ‘non-compliance with the accessibility regulations’ section of this statement.

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was first prepared on 14 August 2020. It was last reviewed on 27 January 2025.

This website was last tested on 27 January 2025 against the WCAG 2.2 AA standard.

The test was carried out by the internal DN Colleges Group web team using the following methods:

  • Manual testing of the pages via keyboard navigation (Tab + Space/Enter) in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge.
  • Manual zoom testing of pages via Ctrl + zooming up to 500% at full desktop resolution and on mobile views.
  • Automated testing of each web page using Google’s Lighthouse testing and reporting tool.
  • Automated testing of each web page using the WAVE tool by WebAIM.
  • Automated reporting within the content management system to highlight content without alternative text descriptors.
  • PDF testing via the Accessibility Checker functionality within the Adobe Acrobat application.
  • Microsoft Word testing via the Accessibility Check functionality within the Microsoft Word application.

We used the following approach to deciding on a sample of pages to test.

We chose to use each of the following pages based on their high usage levels in our websites and importance of the information they contain to our visitors. Some pages of lesser visitor importance were used to enable sampling of other forms of media and functional website elements which are used less frequently throughout our website. The pages included in the most recent test are listed below: