This accessibility statement applies to www.suffolk.ac.uk
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.
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:
If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille:
email website@suffolk.ac.uk
call 01473 382574
We’ll consider your request and get back to you in 14 days.
If you cannot view the map on our ‘contact us’ page, call or email us info@suffolk.ac.uk for directions.
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 (Head of Marketing) on 01473 382200 or email website@suffolk.ac.uk
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).
Some of our offices have audio induction loops, or if you contact us before your visit we can arrange a British Sign Language (BSL) interpreter.
Find out how to contact us here.
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 website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard, due to non-compliances listed below.
The content listed below is non-accessible for the following reasons.
The videos are hosted on YouTube to ensure good quality video across multiple platforms.
The closed captions are generated by YouTube and by default are turned off. These must be controlled by the YouTube control buttons embedded in the player on this site.
Some of our PDFs and Word documents are essential to providing information about our services. For example our Policies, Reports and Statements. By September 2024, we plan to either fix these or replace them with accessible PDF documents.
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.
Any new PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards.
Our accessibility roadmap shows how and when we plan to improve and monitor accessibility on this website.
This statement was prepared on Monday 20th March 2023 It was last reviewed on Wednesday 18th September 2024.
This website was last tested on Wednesday 18th September 2024. The test was carried out by the internal marketing team at Suffolk New College.
We used this approach to decide on a sample of pages to test: We tested the most popular landing pages on the site as well as a range of page types using Deque Axe Devtools, RAMP, WAVE Evaluation Tool and ChromeVox.
