Accessibility

Southampton City College is committed to providing websites which are accessible.

We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to ensure that our websites and applications are accessible to all our users and have an ongoing programme of making useful updates and improvements.

 

If you have an accessibility problem or suggestion that we have not covered, please contact us on:-
Tel: 023 8048 4848
Fax: 023 8057 7473
Email: enquiries@southampton-city.ac.uk

 

The Southampton City College website has been developed to best practice coding conventions corresponding with guidelines stipulated by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0) and successfully XHTML 1.0 transitional valid.

 

We have also used Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool (WAVE) to aid in the web accessibility evaluation process, and to create an interoperable Web page for all users.

 

Browsers

The following browsers have been tested for compatibility:

  • Internet Explorer (Windows) v7.0+
  • Firefox (Windows and Mac) v3.0+
  • Safari (Mac) v2.0
  • Chrome (Windows) v10.0

 

We recommend that you upgrade your web browser to one which fully supports web standards (Firefox, Chrome, Opera or Safari.)

 

Readability Testing

Readability Testing takes the text on our web pages and gives a score for the most used readability indicators.

 

Here are links to readability test results for City College Southampton website(s), each website has an age that the website should be easily readable by. We have performed these tests on a few pages from each site and averaged the score; therefore some results may differ slightly from results listed below.

 

Website / Test Link

Easily Understood by

Home

13-14 year olds

School Leaver

13-14 year olds
 

Adult

14-15 year olds

International

14-15 year olds
 

Apprenticeships

16-17 year olds

Marine

16-17 year olds

Business

16-17 year olds

Training

16-17 year olds

 

 Text size

You can change the text size on this application to make it either larger or smaller via your browser settings. Some browsers will allow you to magnify the whole page. To change the text size, follow the instructions below:

Internet Explorer
  • Click 'View' to open the View menu or press 'Alt' and 'V'
  • Select the 'Text Size' option or select by pressing 'X'
  • Choose your preferred text size using your mouse or use the up and down arrow keys
  • Click to select the text size or press 'Enter'
  • The text size should change to reflect your choice
Firefox
  • Click 'View' to open the View menu
  • Select the 'Text Size' option
  • Select 'Increase' or 'Decrease'
  • The text on our site should change to reflect your choice
Safari
  • Click 'View' to open the View menu
  • Click on 'Make Text Bigger' or 'Make Text Smaller' or to use the keyboard shortcuts select
  • 'Apple' and '+' (plus) or 'Apple' and '-' (minus)

 

The text size on our site should change to reflect your choice

 

Navigation

A sitemap is available to the user for quick page access.

 

Accessibility Features

We support a wide range of accessibility features and tools within the college systems, including "sticky keys" and "toggle keys". ClaroRead is installed on all 500+ student computers.

 

Useful Links

 

Contact us

Tel: 023 8048 4848
Fax: 023 8057 7473
Email: enquiries@southampton-city.ac.uk

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