Our Commitment to Web Accessibility

Grosvenor Nursery School and Day Care Centre is committed to providing a fully accessible website experience for all users of all abilities, including those who rely on assistive technologies like screen readers, screen enlargement software, and alternative keyboard input devices to navigate the web.

Ongoing Efforts to Ensure Accessibility

We follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2.1 as our guiding principle for determining accessibility. These are internationally agreed-upon standards that cover a wide range of recommendations and best practices for making content useable. As we add new pages and functionality to our website, all designs, code, and content entry practices are checked against these standards.

Website accessibility is an ongoing process. We continually test content and features for WCAG 2.1 Level AA compliance and remediate any issues to ensure we meet or exceed the standards. Testing of our website is performed by our team members using industry-standard tools such as the WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools, WAVE^® is a suite of evaluation tools that helps authors make their web content more accessible to individuals with disabilities.

Accessibility Features On Our Website

The following is a list of items we have included in our website to improve its accessibility:

• Accessibility toolbar toggle on the frontend.
• Keyboard navigation support option.
• Disable animations option.
• High contrast mode, including configurable contrast colors.
• Text resizing controls:
• Increase text
• Decrease text
• Custom include/exclude selectors for which elements are affected
• Readable font mode:
• Built-in font choice
• Custom font-family option
• Mark titles mode with configurable title colors.
• Highlight links and buttons mode.
• Additional accessibility links in toolbar footer:
• Accessibility Statement
• Send Feedback
• Site Map
• Mobile visibility control for showing or hiding toolbar on mobile devices.
• Cookie usage control option.
• Optional telemetry setting (disabled by default).
• Toolbar customization:
• Style variants
• Side placement
• Vertical stickness
• Toggle and panel spacing controls
• Custom toolbar color
• Icon visibility control
• Draggable button on/off
• Toolbar animation on/off

Where We’re Improving

In our efforts to bring our website up to standard, we are targeting the following areas:

• Accessibility Statement Compliance
  We are implementing and maintaining a structured accessibility statement process, including required legal sections, validation, and public publishing support.
  Status: Implemented and active, with ongoing review updates.

• Essential Online Administrative Functions
  We are identifying and tracking in-scope school services such as admissions, attendance, safeguarding, parent communication, and policy pages so remediation can be prioritized.
  Status: Planned next phase.

• Site-Wide Accessibility Checking
  We are expanding automated checks across key risk areas including headings, link purpose, form labels, keyboard focus visibility, contrast indicators, and document links (PDF/Office), with actionable reporting.
  Status: Partially implemented (image alt checks live), broader checks planned.

• Accessible Format Request Process
  We are building a formal request workflow so users can ask for accessible versions of content, with tracking, ownership, and response status management.
  Status: Planned.

• Monitoring, Evidence, and Governance Reporting
  We are developing dashboard monitoring, exports, and trend tracking to support internal governance and external scrutiny.
  Status: Planned.

• Cross-Cutting Quality Controls
  Across all phases, we are applying secure data handling, performance safeguards, admin accessibility, compatibility testing, and release-by-release validation.
  Status: Ongoing.

In our efforts to bring our website up to standard, we are targeting the following areas:

• Resolving all currently open image alt-text issues identified by our accessibility scans.
• Expanding checks to include headings, link purpose, form labels, keyboard focus, contrast risks, and document accessibility.
• Prioritising essential school service pages (admissions, attendance, safeguarding, parent communication, policies) for remediation.
• Maintaining a complete and up-to-date accessibility statement.
• Introducing an accessible format request workflow for users.
• Building governance reporting to monitor open issues by type and severity over time.

This is part of our broader effort to make everyone’s experience at Bolton SICT a welcoming and enjoyable one. Please note that while we make every effort to provide information accessible for all users, we cannot guarantee the accessibility of third party websites to which we may link.

Accessibility Support Contact

We welcome comments, questions, and feedback on our website. If you are using assistive technologies and are having difficulty using our website, please email webs@bolton365.net or give us a call at 01204 332034. We will do our best to assist you and resolve issues.