Accessibility Statement for The ThinkSpace Education Virtual Learning Environment

This is an accessibility statement from ThinkSpace Education.

Measures to support accessibility

ThinkSpace Education takes the following measures to ensure accessibility of The ThinkSpace Education Virtual Learning Environment:

• Include accessibility throughout our internal policies.
• Assign clear accessibility goals and responsibilities.
• Employ formal accessibility quality assurance methods.
• Development team use accessibility tools/scans when implementing new features.

Conformance status

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA. The ThinkSpace Education Virtual Learning Environment is partially conformant with WCAG 2.1 level AA. Partially conformant means that some parts of the content do not fully conform to the accessibility standard.

Additional accessibility considerations

Our goal is to make our website WCAG 2.1 Level AA compliant. In addition, we have implemented several accessibility features to make our site more user-friendly for everyone. These include dyslexic-friendly fonts, user-selectable fonts, and resizable course materials. Whenever possible, all text in our course materials is readable via screen reader.

Feedback

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of The ThinkSpace Education Virtual Learning Environment. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers on The ThinkSpace Education Virtual Learning Environment:

• Phone: 01243 256049
• E-mail: contact@thinkspaceeducation.org

We try to respond to feedback within 2-3 business days.

Compatibility with browsers and assistive technology

The ThinkSpace Education Virtual Learning Environment is designed to be compatible with the following assistive technologies:

• Chrome on Windows, Android, and MacOS
• Firefox on Windows, Android, and MacOS
• Safari on MacOS and iOS
• Edge on Windows

The ThinkSpace Education Virtual Learning Environment is not compatible with:

• Browsers older than two or three major versions
• Mobile operating systems older than three years
• Desktop operating systems older than three years

Technical specifications

Accessibility of The ThinkSpace Education Virtual Learning Environment relies on the following technologies to work with the particular combination of web browser and any assistive technologies or plugins installed on your computer:

• HTML
• WAI-ARIA
• CSS
• JavaScript

These technologies are relied upon for conformance with the accessibility standards used.

Limitations and alternatives

Despite our best efforts to ensure accessibility of The ThinkSpace Education Virtual Learning Environment , there may be some limitations. Below is a description of known limitations, and potential solutions. Please contact us if you observe an issue not listed below.

Known limitations for The ThinkSpace Education Virtual Learning Environment:

1. Course materials: videos: No closed captioning/subtitles to accompany course videos. because The video platform we used initially did not support auto-generated captions, and the tens of thousands of hours of existing video material will take an unfeasible amount of time/money to caption manually.. All subsequent videos are uploaded with auto-generated captions as standard.. Before enrolment in our older courses, please assess whether or not video lectures without closed captioning will make studying difficult..
2. Course materials: images: Alternative text not present on course images. because The course creation platform we use does not support 'alt text' on images meaning that, while images may have captions, these are not formally included in the HTML image tag.. We are developing new course creation software with image 'alt text' as standard.. Before enrolment in our older courses, please assess whether or not images without alternative text will make studying difficult..

Assessment approach

ThinkSpace Education assessed the accessibility of The ThinkSpace Education Virtual Learning Environment by the following approaches:

• Self-evaluation
• External evaluation

Date

This statement was created on 13 October 2022 using the W3C Accessibility Statement Generator Tool.