Doncaster College – 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
zoom in up to 300% without the text spilling off the screen
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)

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:

email dcinfocentre@don.ac.uk
call 01302 553553

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

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.

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

Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance Policy, accessed from the Careers Guidance 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.
DN Colleges Group Careers Plan, accessed from the Careers Guidance 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, 1.1.1 for missing alternative text or description of the images used at the top of the document, and 2.1.1 due to the inability to use the keyboard to access interactive elements in the document.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Each PDF listed on the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion web page. These fail WCAG standard 2.4.2 – Page Titled due to a missing document title.
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.

Externally provided documents

In addition, we are required to host some documents provided by external agencies or partners. We do not have control of these documents but where the following are not compliant, we have requested the original creating agency/partner address this. The following document is not currently compliant:

The HeppSY Student Privacy Notice, contained on the HeppSY web page. This document is missing its title so fails WCAG 2.4.2 – Page Titled.

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 2023 all policies and procedures will be available as HTML web pages by default instead of PDF files
By end of June 2023 we are investigating improved keyboard navigation to allow arrow key navigation through and between the website main menus. Currently the navigation works only via standard practices using tab and enter keys but we hope to improve this with arrow key functionality.

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was first prepared on 14 August 2020. It was last reviewed on 27 March 2023.

This website was last tested on 27 March 2023. The test was carried out by the internal DN Colleges Group web team.

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: