Accessibility Statement

Coleg y Cymoedd strives to provide a website that is accessible to all users (both browser and user accessibility).

Standards Compliance

Coleg y Cymoedd web site has been created, designed and tested in accordance with the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) web content accessiblity guidelines.  The W3C is an international consortium responsible for developing web standards and practices.

As far as possible, we have tried to ensure that:-

1. All pages on this site validate as HTML 5 conformance
2. All pages on this site comply with priority 1 and in most cases priority 2 of the W3C Web Content Accessiblity Guidelines

This site has been developed to comply with all major web browsers and platforms that are currently supported by its manufacturer.

Recite Me

Visitors to the our website may listen to the content by using Recite Me. Recite Me reads website content out loud in a high quality, human-sounding voice. Each word is highlighted as it is read aloud and the sentence is highlighted in a contrasting colour. This allows users to easily identify what text is being read aloud and navigate within and between web pages.

• people with low literacy and reading skills
• people for whom English is not their first language
• people with dyslexia
• people with a mild visual impairment

Links

Many links have title attributes which describe the link in greater details.  Links are written to make sense out of context

Images

All content images used on this site, where possible, include descriptive ALT attributes. 

Font size

How to change the font size in your browser:

In Internet Explorer: select the ‘Page’ button, select ‘Text size’, then select the size you want.

In Google Chrome: select the Chrome menu on the browser toolbar, select ‘Settings’. Select ‘Show advanced settings’. In the ‘Web Content’ section, use the ‘Font size’ drop-down menu to make adjustments.

In Mozilla Firefox: go to ‘Tools’, then ‘Options’, then ‘Content’ and finally ‘Fonts and Colors’. You can change to the size you need here.

Visual Design

This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layouts.  If your browser does not support stylesheets the content of each page should still be readable.

If you have any queries or comments, please contact the Marketing Department.