Accessibility

Greater Manchester Institute of Technology: Accessibility statement

Introduction

This statement applies to all content published on the gmiot.ac.uk domain, which is the website of the Greater Manchester Institute of Technology. It does not apply to content accessed via any subdomains which will have separate accessibility statements.

The website is run by the Greater Manchester Institute of Technology. The Greater Manchester Institute of Technology is committed to making its website accessible.

The text should be clear and simple to understand. You should be able to:

• Change colours, contrast levels and fonts
• Zoom in up to 300% without the text spilling off the screen
• Navigate the website using just a keyboard
• Navigate the website using speech recognition software
• Listen to the website using a screen reader (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)

How accessible this website is

This website aims to meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) AA. We have carried out testing using automated and manual procedures to ensure all criteria within the WCAG 2.1 specification are met.

We know some parts of this website, provided by 3rd parties are not fully accessible:

YouTube Embeds

We have chosen to use YouTube to host our videos due to the high level of accessibility support provided. However, we are aware of an issue caused by an invalid Aria attribute that may cause pages to report an error when carrying out automated testing. This issue should not affect users’ ability to access the video content.

Browser support

The website is designed to be compatible with assistive technologies and the latest versions of most popular web browsers

• Google Chrome
• Mozilla Firefox
• Microsoft Edge
• Apple Safari