Accessibility statement
The following access keys are supported:
1 - NCSL home page
8 - legal information
9 - about this site
S - skip navigation
Additional access keys may be supported in the future.
A left hand navigation menu is provided consistently across all of the site. The following options are available:
- Skip navigation so that a screen reader user or mobile phone/PDA user can go straight to the content of the page;
- Links to the NCSL home page, about us, programmes, publications, research, managing your school, online communities, NCSL in your region, community leadership and networked learning sections.
- A basic search facility is available from the left hand menu on every page.
A breadcrumb trail has been provided across the site to show the section and page the user is on within the site.
A right hand menu is provided on most pages, containing news (where appropriate), in-section links and other related links.
Supplementary in-page links are provided on long pages with a large amounts of content.
- Browser support: the NCSL site has been optimised for users of Internet Explorer versions higher than 5, Netscape versions higher than 4, Firefox and other browsers complying to W3C standards. Mac OSX users can view the site in Firefox, Netscape or Safari, and the last version of Internet Explorer (5.2) is also supported. The site supports basic rendering for older browsers.
- Mobile devices: PDA / mobile phone access is supported.
- Screen resolution: the site has been built to render the full width of page content without requiring horizontal scrolling down to resolutions of 800 x 600 pixels.
- Text resizing: text resizing is supported.
- Printing: a print-specific version of web pages will automatically be generated when using the latest browsers.
The National College for School Leadership (NCSL) committed to making its web content widely accessible to all users and is constantly striving to improve standards and better enable access to its website. We are also committed to establishing a minimum accessibility standard for web pages and to achieving the maximum standard wherever possible. This web access statement relates specifically to the public NCSL website at www.ncsl.org.uk.
- Parts of the NCSL website which do not use core templates (NCSL careers, the Learning and Conference Centre website, Learning Centred Leadership and Distributed Leadership websites) do not currently have the access keys, navigation and accessibility features listed above. Please bear with us as we review these sites to bring them in to line with the rest of the website, and report any problems you have to the NCSL help desk.
- Legacy content in NCSL's Learning Gateway environment may not reach WAI AA standard, however current and future work will meet this level.
- The talk2learn environment does not currently comply with WAI AA standard, and accessibility is under review for this particular case. Please report any problems you have to the NCSL help desk.
If you use assistive technology, handheld devices or standard web browsers and find that the format of any material on our websites interferes with your ability to access information, please contact philippa.hill@ncsl.org.uk and we will do our best to resolve the problem or provide the information in an alternative format.
