Our Commitment to Accessibility
Throughout our history, South College has endeavored to meet the needs of our career-driven student body. Under the current administration, the college has expanded to include new campuses, added more programs at all levels, and revolutionized curricula and learning technologies. We are better than we’ve ever been at providing the quality and flexibility our students want, but we will never stop looking for ways to improve our students’ experiences.
In any era, it is the values of excellence, responsibility, and integrity that guide the strategic planning and decision-making of the South College leadership. Our top priority is and always will be providing our students with the excellent education they need to achieve their goals.
We strive to provide our students with education in a manner that ensures equal access, respect, dignity, and independence to all.
Our Mission and Action
We are dedicated to making South College a leader in student experience, and a critical part of that is digital accessibility. That’s why we’ve adopted the internationally recognized Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AA standard for our website, which includes PDFs, and multimedia assets such as videos and photos. Below you’ll find some of the ways we have incorporated accessibility into our South College culture:
- Developing an Accessibility mindset for employees and faculty that is dedicated to the adoption and implementation of accessibility practices and culture at South College.
- Conducting continuous accessibility testing of website navigation to continue to enhance our offerings.
- Partner with industry-leading accessibility expert Deque and its Accessibility Certification Service for consulting, monitoring, and certification.
- Providing approved disability-specific services upon request (sign language interpreters/software as an example).
- Working towards achieving Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 Level AA.
Need Assistance?
As a valued member of our South College family, your needs are important to us. We put student services at the heart of what we do every day. If the format of any material on this website at south.edu limits your ability to access information, please let us know by emailing us at accessibility@south.edu. We promise to provide a prompt and compassionate response, using thorough and exhaustive means to best answer your needs.
Regarding Third Party Sites
South College has high expectations of quality, value, service, and respect of diversity from third-party suppliers and sites that we use. Although we are working to make all partner sites meet our guidelines, we cannot always guarantee the accessibility of these sites. We encourage you to contact us at accessibility@south.edu if any assistance is needed.
A Notice on Third Party Content: The South College website utilizes third party content for some features. We are continuously working with our procured vendors to provide a more accessible experience. Some third-party content that is readily available to all cannot be customized, and we cannot guarantee the accessibility of this content. If you would like assistance using this content, please contact us by emailing us at accessibility@south.edu.
Please note that our website(s) may link to, or interface with, third-party sites that we do not control, and which are not affiliated directly with South College. These third-party vendors may not have undertaken the same efforts that South College has to comply with the WCAG standards. As such, South College does not make representations regarding the accessibility and compliance with the ADA (or other applicable laws) of third-party sites. In addition, third-party vendors provide some content, plugins and widgets on our websites. While we ask those third-party vendors to ensure accessibility, we cannot ensure their conformance but commit to continuously working with them to ensure updates are made consistently to improve the customer experience for all.
Accessibility Certification Service
About Deque:
Deque is a trusted leader in digital accessibility that provides web accessibility software and services with a mission of digital equality. Deque’s suite of industry-leading testing tools are utilized to audit and monitor customer sites and apps for accessibility issues, put preventative measures in place to prevent accessibility issues, and work through remediation.