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Accessibility
The City of Bristol College has made a commitment to make this website accessible:
- We have extensively tested this site with Scott Wood the College's Visual Impairment Support Coordinator and have included accessibility features as a result of the testing
- All pages on this site should meet World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, meeting all level double-A checkpoints
- We have provided a text only version which can be found at the top of every page in the website tools
- All pages on this site should be valid to XHTML 1.0 Transitional and use Cascade Style Sheets (CSS) 2.0
- Particular care has been taken to ensure this website's content and image alternative tags have been written in a way that is helpful to users using screen reader software.
Accessibilty Features
This site includes a number of accessibility features.
Text Only
A link to a text only version of the site or the page can be found at the top of every page in the website tools. To go back to the graphical version of the site or page, a graphical version link can be found under the text only Website Tools heading.
Headings for use with screen reader software
The majority of pages on this site include a number of hidden headings. The headings identify site navigation, site tools and content items. The following describes the purpose of each of the headings. The headings at are Level 1 unless specified:
Site Wide Tools:
Site Wide Tools can be found at the top of every page. The Site Wide Tools include a link to this accessibility page and a text only version of any page. You can navigate the site using text only. The Site Wide Tools also allow you to increase or decrease the page font size and reset the font size.
Site Wide Navigation:
Site Wide Navigation can be found on every page. Site Wide Navigation is the sites main navigation. It links to the Homepage, Courses, News, About Us, Visitor Events, Student Support and Contact Us.
Links:
All pages linked to from the homepage are called landing pages. All landing pages and content pages include a links heading with links prefixed by the landing page name. This links heading will take you to all the pages that relate to that landing page.
Main Content:
Main Content can be found on the majority of the site's pages:
- On the website homepage, main content will take you to the site's target areas: School Leavers, Adult Study, University Level, International and Partners in Business
- On landing pages such as School Leavers, the main content heading will take you to the page's most important items
- On content pages (the majority of the site) main content will take you to page content.
An End of Main Content heading is included on the majority of pages, to identify the end of the pages main content.
Promotional Items:
A promotional Items heading can be found on the majority of pages. It will take you to items that are highlighting important information for example promoting other areas of the website or marketing events.
College Awards (Heading Level 2):
College Awards identify all the College's recent awards, such as the Learning and Skills Beacon Award and the College's Centre of Vocational Excellence awards.
Staff and Student Tools:
Staff and Student Tools can be found on the majority of pages. Staff and Student Tools provides links to:
- Jobs, where you can read and apply for all the latest job vacancies
- Online Services, where you will find links to web services such as staff and student email, staff intranet, netstorage and the IT Policy, Procedure and Guidelines
- A link to the Student Portal
- Website Terms and Conditions
- Website Privacy Policy
- Freedom of Information statement.
Other headings to look out for:
On the homepage, Course Finder will take you to the course finder search. The course finder search on the homepage allows you to search for a course by using a drop down list of subjects or by using a key word. We recommend that you use the courses page - a link to courses can be found in the site wide navigation.
Skip to navigation and skip to content
If you are using a screen reader you will find the following at the start of every page:
- Skip to website tools
- Skip to site wide navigation
- Skip to main content
- Skip to staff and student tools.
The above will help navigate to the site tools, navigation and content quickly and easily.
Help with PDF files
Adobe PDF documents (PDF stands for Portable Document Format) have been used on this site for:
- large documents such as policies and prospectus
- complex forms such as the course application form and enrolment form.
Screen Readers such as JAWS version 3.7 and above and SuperNova version 5.1 and above can read Abobe Acrobat PDF documents. All PDF files published on this site open in a new window.
To open a PDF file you have two options:
- You can download Adobe Acrobat Reader from the Adobe Website and install it onto your computer
- The second option is to use an online conversion tool. You can visit the Adobe Acrobat website, type in the address of a PDF file and get it to translate the file into a more readable format while you wait. Or you can email the address of the file (or the file itself) to Adobe, and they will email a translation back. These translations of the files may not be as clearly formatted as the original PDF file.
About this Site
Where we include links to external sites they will open in a new browser window. We can take no responsibility for the content of external websites but please contact us at webadmin@cityofbristol.ac.uk if we link to anything unsuitable, incorrect or inaccessible.
The City of Bristol College website contains information for five main areas; School Leavers, Adult Study, University Level, International and Partners in Business. You can find a course using our Course Finder and find out about what student support is available in the College.
You can also find out about the latest college news, how to contact and find us and when visitor events are taking place. We also advertise Job Vacancies.
Printed Publications
College Prospectuses are offered in alternative formats. Please contact Learner Services on 0117 312 2731.
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Promotional Items
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College Awards
