DACES receive funding from the ESFA to provide courses for Derbyshire residents. As part of our enrolment process you will be required to show evidence of residency to check your eligibility for funding, as well as for ID checks.
Adult learners aged 19+ - If you live in a devolved area you can enrol onto our courses online, over the phone or in centre, but full cost fees apply and we will contact you about any additional fees due. You can check your eligibility for funding online Learners under 19, or up to 24 with an active an EHC Plan - You can check your eligibility for funding online
Accessibility statement for Derbyshire Adult Community Education
This accessibility statement covers the web sites of Derbyshire Adult Community Education
This accessibility statement applies to https://courses.dacesglobal.net
This website
allows for accessible access by people to enable them to navigate and interact
with the site using commonly available tools and features within HTML5
compatible browsers that are available upon desktop PCs, tablets and mobile
phones.
This website
is run by Derbyshire Adult Community Education. We want as many people as possible to be able to
use this website. That means you should be able to:
· change colours, contrast levels and fonts
·
zoom in up to 300% without the text spilling off the screen
·
navigate most of the website using just a keyboard
·
navigate most of the website using speech recognition software
·
listen to most of the website using a screen reader (including the most
recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)
We’ve also
made the website text as simple as possible to understand.
AbilityNet has advice on
making your device easier to use if you have a disability.
How accessible this website is
We know some
parts of this website are not fully accessible:
·
you cannot modify the line height or spacing of text
·
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
·
you cannot skip to the main content when using a screen reader
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 see https://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/education/adult-education/centres/our-adult-education-centres.aspx
call 01629533190
We’ll
consider your request and get back to you in 3 days.
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 our Support Desk on 01629533190 or email see https://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/education/adult-education/centres/our-adult-education-centres.aspx
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
Find out how to contact us at https://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/education/adult-education/adult-community-education.aspx
Technical
information about this website’s accessibility
Derbyshire Adult Community Education
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 listed below.
Non-accessible content
The content
listed below is non-accessible for the following reasons.
Headings
On some pages there are no top-level headings. A
top-level heading helps screen reader users and search engines to know the
main topic of a page.
This doesn’t meet WCAG 2 success criterion 1.3.1 Information and
Relationships and 2.4.10 Section Headings.
When we publish new content, we’ll make sure our use of headings
meets accessibility standards.
Some images contain text, so people with dyslexia or using a screen
reader will not be able to read the information. This doesn't meet WCAG 2
success criterion 1.4.5 (Images of Text).
When we publish new content, we’ll make sure our use of images
meets accessibility standards.
Some current PDFs are using older formating and will be amended in the near future.
Disproportionate burden
We don't categorise any of the accessibility issues on
https://courses.dacesglobal.net
as a disproportionate burden to
fix within the meaning of the regulations…
Content that’s not within the scope of the accessibility regulations
PDFs and other documents
Some of our
PDFs and Word documents are essential to providing our services. For example, we
have PDFs with information on how users can access our services, and forms
published as Word documents.
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. For example, we do not plan to fix
[example of non-essential document].
Any new PDFs
or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards.
What we’re doing to improve
accessibility
We are planning to improve our website
by doing the following:
·
Reviewing all images
·
Reviewing content
·
Reviewing display contrasts
Preparation of this accessibility statement
This statement was prepared on 27 April 2023. It was last reviewed on 17 September 2020.
This website was last tested on 27 April 2023. The test was carried out by West
March Systems Ltd using WAVE.
We
used this approach to deciding on a sample of pages to test.