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Accessibility Statement

Accessibility statement for the Leicester Adult Education website

Leicester Adult Education is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

This statement applies to https://www.leicesteradulted.ac.uk.

This website is run by Leicester City Council. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, 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 also made the website text as simple as possible to understand

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

Leicester City Council 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

We know some parts of this website are currently not fully accessible:

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulationsWCAG 1.4.10 Reflow

At 400% zoom and in mobile view, once the hamburger has been expanded, dropdown menus do not reflow to fit the webpage. The user has to scroll horizontally to view all content within the menu

At 400% zoom and in mobile view, the cookie banner does not reflow to fit the webpage

WCAG 2.4.3 Focus Order

The keyboard tabs into the cookie banner at the bottom of the webpage last. This means the banner covers content across the webpage until it is selected

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:

We’ll consider your request and get back to you as soon as possible

Reporting accessibility problems with this website

We are always looking to improve the accessibility of this website. If you find any problems that are not listed on this page or think we are not meeting accessibility requirements, contact the Adult Education Marketing Team at adult.ed-marketing@leicester.gov.uk

What we’re doing to improve accessibility

We are committed to continually improving the accessibility of this website.

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).

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was reviewed and last updated on 2 June 2026

We use an automated monitoring system called Siteimprove that crawls the website every five days for accessibility issues. We recognise that automated tools are limited in their ability to detect issues, so we also carry out frequent manual tests and act on user feedback when it is received. Some of the tools used include: