Accessibility
This is the web accessibility statement for Stockton Riverside College.
Stockton Riverside College is constantly developing its website to meet the guidelines set by the Web Accessibility Initiative. More information about the Web Accessibility Initiative can be found at http://www.w3.org/wai/.
1. Access Keys
Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site.
To use an access key, press the ALT key (Windows) or the Control key (Mac) and the number to jump to the link then press ENTER to navigate the link.
All Stockton Riverside College web pages define the access keys noted below:
- Access key 1 - Homepage
- Access key 2 - Bede Sixth Form
- Access key 3 - Sports Centre
- Access key 4 - Courses
- Access key 5 - Higher Education
- Access key 6 - Employers
- Access key 7 - About Us
- Access key 8 - Contact Us
2. Standards compliance
The pages within the Stockton Riverside College website comply with all Priority 2 Guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
The website complies with the W3C CSS guidelines.
The website complies with the W3C XHTML 1.0 guidelines.
All new web pages are checked as part of the authoring procedure.
3. Navigation
Navigatioon is spilt into both primary and secondary navigation sections. Primary navigation can be found on the top of the screen, whilst secondary can be found on the left.
4. Links
When a link leads away from any part of the Stockton Riverside website or sub-sites, a new browser window will open. We do not exercise control over any site that we may link to externally and cannot verify its level of accessibility.
5. Images
All content images used in this site include descriptive alt attributes.
6. Visual design
This site uses CSS for all visual layout. When your computer loads any page of the Stockton Riverside College website or sub-sites, the associated styesheet will be held in the cache of your machine and used on any subsequent pages. This enables for faster web page loading on your machine.
Although this site utilises colour in its text and content, the content of this site is still readable if colour options are not supported by your browser or it is turned off.
Stylesheets are used to designate font size, positioning, colour(both in ordinary text and linked text), background and other visual layout aspects.
If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.
This document was last updated on 15/03/2011.