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Accessibility Statement

Accessibility Statements for City of Wolverhampton College

Website

This accessibility statement applies to www.wolvcoll.ac.uk

This website is run by City of Wolverhampton College. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website.

AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability.

We’ve also included the website accessibility software. This is available by clicking the ‘Accessibility’ button at the top left-hand side of this website. 

How accessible this website is 

We know some parts of this website are not fully accessible. For example, most older PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software, some of our online forms are difficult to navigate using just a keyboard. 

Feedback and contact information

If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille: email digital-accessibility@wolvcoll.ac.uk

We’ll consider your request and get back to you as soon as we can.

Reporting accessibility problems with this website

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:

Enforcement procedure

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).

Contacting us by phone or visiting us in person

We provide a text relay service for people who are D/deaf, hearing impaired or have a speech impediment. Our reception areas have audio induction loops, or if you contact us before your visit we can arrange a British Sign Language (BSL) interpreter.

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

City of Wolverhampton College is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

Compliance status

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard, due to the non-compliances and exemptions listed below. 

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations

Some images do not have a text alternative, so people using a screen reader cannot access the information. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.1.1 (non-text content). We plan to add text alternatives for all images by September 2025. When we publish new content, we’ll make sure our use of images meets accessibility standards. 

Content that’s not within the scope of the accessibility regulations 

PDFs and other documents: Many of our older PDFs and Word documents do not meet accessibility standards – for example, they may not be structured so they’re accessible to a screen reader. This does not meet WCAG 2.1 success criterion 4.1.2 (name, role value). 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 PDF documents we publish will meet accessibility standards. 

Live video 

We do not plan to add captions to live video streams because live video is exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations. 

What we’re doing to improve accessibility  

We are working hard to improve on any issues and our accessibility compliance is reviewed at least once a year, in June of each year. 

How we tested this website 

We use several different approaches to testing the accessibility of our website. This includes manual testing using assistive technology such as a screen reader as well as automated testing. Once a year we run a significant manual test on a sample of pages and several key pages that have a significant number of website visitors. 

Preparation of this accessibility statement 

This statement was prepared on 17 February 2020 and was last updated on the 1 June 2025. It was last reviewed on 1 June 2025.   

This website was last tested on 1 June 2025.  The test was carried out by our own internal technical teams testing.