Suffolk New College is committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. We are continually improving the user experience for everyone, and applying the relevant accessibility standards.
Suffolk New College is committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. We are continually improving the user experience for everyone, and applying the relevant accessibility standards.
This accessibility statement applies to suffolk.ac.uk.
This website is run by Suffolk New College.
We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:
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.
We know some parts of this website are not fully accessible:
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: Craig Shimmon, Marketing Department, Suffolk New College, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP4 1LT – 01473 382200
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).
Suffolk New College is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.
This site is designed to be compatible with the following browsers:
Accessibility of this site relies on the following technologies to work:
This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard, due to video content not having audio descriptions.
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. By September 2020, we plan to either fix these or replace them with accessible HTML pages.
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. For example, we do not plan to fix [example of non-essential document].
Any new PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards.
We do not plan to add captions to live video streams because live video is exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations.
This statement was prepared on 17th August 2022. It was last reviewed on 8th February 2023.
This website was last tested on 8th February 2023. The test was carried out by Suffolk New College.
We used WAVE and web2access to produce reports based on a random selection of landing pages, homepage and course pages.
We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of this site. Please contact us via one of the following methods:
We aim to respond to feedback within 5 business days.
If you require paper copies of pages from our site please contact us using the information above.
Suffolk New College uses Google Classroom as its virtual learning environment, Google have provided their own Accessibility Conformance Report for this platform which is available here: https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/google_classroom_vpat.pdf