Accessibility statement for Falmouth University Short Courses

This accessibility statement applies to https://falmouthshortcourses.myshopify.com/.

This website is run by Falmouth University. 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 using browser or device settings
  • zoom in up to 400% without the text spilling off the screen
  • navigate most of the website using a keyboard or 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 Falmouth Short Courses are not fully accessible:

  • Navigation/site-wide:
    • Colour of inactive states does not meet sufficient contrast.
    • Menu is comprised of a list which should only contain li elements.
  • Scrollable region must have keyboard access.
  • Form elements must have labels.

Feedback and contact information

If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, contact us using our web form.

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).

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

Falmouth University Short Courses 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

The software has been tested against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standard.

This software is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.2 AA standard, due to the non-compliances listed below.

Non-accessible content

The content listed below is non-accessible for the following reasons.

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations

Info and Relationships (Level A) WCAG 2.2 A 1.3.1

  • <ul> and <ol> must only directly contain <li>, <script> or <template> elements
  • Main navigation/site-wide: Ensure all ordered and unordered lists (defined by ul or ol elements) contain only li content elements.

Contrast (Minimum) (Level AA) WCAG 2.2 AA 1.4.3

  • Ensure contrast of at least 4.5:1.
  • Main navigation/site-wide: Elements must meet minimum colour contrast ratio thresholds.

Keyboard (Level A) WCAG 2.2 A 2.1.1

  • Scrollable region must have keyboard access.
  • Links to individual courses from category pages, collection pages and related courses on detail page utilise a change of image on interaction/mouseover.

Name, Role, Value (Level A) WCAG 2.2 A 4.1.2

  • Form elements must have labels.
  • Courses offering an optional add on (eg. Leather for book binding course) require a Shopify approved App to enable functionality, which introduces a form element into page that does not meet requirements.

Disproportionate burden

Navigation and accessing information

We have not classified any of the non-compliant content as a disproportionate burden to fix and we have not identified any issues that would class as an exemption under law.

Content that’s not within the scope of the accessibility regulations

PDFs and other 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.

Any new PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards.

Live video

We do not plan to add captions to live video streams because live video is exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations.

What we’re doing to improve accessibility

Our accessibility roadmap shows how and when we plan to improve accessibility of Learn.

To summarise, these include:

  • Reacting quickly and effectively to feedback regarding non-compliant content and communicating these issues to relevant the parties.
  • Periodically auditing our content for accessibility issues and correcting any issues.
  • Contact third-party supplier (Shopify) feeding back accessibility issues and working with them to improve their services.
  • Where possible undertake further theme customisation to improve issues under our control.

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was first prepared on 02/03/2026. It was last reviewed on 02/03/2026.

This website was last tested on 02/03/2026 against the WCAG 2.2 AA standard.

The test was carried out by the Falmouth University. All page types were tested using Google Chrome browser extensions: Axe DevTools v4.11.1 and WebAim WAVE v3.3.0.4 to the WCAG 2.2 AA standard.