Accessibility Statement

Accessibility statement for Bradfields Academy

This accessibility statement applies to Bradfields Academy (https://www.bradfieldsacademy.co.uk)

This website is run by Blue Apple Education, on behalf of Bradfields Academy and Fortis Trust. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website with ease. To support your access, you can use the Accessibility Menu on the side panel, which enables you to:

  • Change languages
  • Access the Screen Reader and change the speeds
  • Adjust the Contrast
  • Highlight Links
  • Increase Text Size
  • Increase Text Spacing
  • Pause Animations
  • Hide Images
  • Make the text Dyslexia Friendly
  • Adapt the Cursor to make it bigger
  • Add a Reading Mask
  • Add a Reading Guide
  • Access Tips on How to use the Accessibility Menu
  • Access the Page Structure
  • Adjust the Line Height
  • Adjust the Text Alignment
  • Access a Dictionary
  • Adjust the Saturation
  • Adjust the size of the Accessibility Widget

We have 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 – please click this link – https://mcmw.abilitynet.org.uk/

How accessible this website is

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

  • There may be some older PDFs, or PDFs which have been scanned onto the website, which means they are not fully accessible to screen reader software
  • Contact us and other enquiry forms may not insert text from the installed widget and would require the user to type in their response or have their own software to do this.
  • Some of the videos may not have captions
  • You cannot skip to the main content when using a screen reader
  • There is a limit to how far you can magnify the map on our ‘contact us’ page

Feedback and contact information

If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we are not meeting accessibility requirements, contact office@bradfieldsacademy.co.uk or phone 01634 683990.  Alternatively, you can contact marketing@fortistrust.co.uk or phone 01634 683990.

If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF and large print.

We will consider your request and get back to you in 5 working days.

If you cannot view the map on our ‘contact us’ page, call or email us for directions.  Link for our contact page: https://www.bradfieldsacademy.co.uk/contact/

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 are not happy with how we respond to your complaint, contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS) – https://www.equalityadvisoryservice.com/

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

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

(b) This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.2 AA standard, due to the non-compliances and exemptions listed below.

Link to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.2 AA – https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/

Non-accessible content

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

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations

  • The purpose of each link has not been identified from link text across the website. This fails WCAG 2.2 success criterion 2.4.9.
    • This is a limitation on the Blue Apple website structure. This will be re-investigated at the next review.

Disproportionate burden

  • The time-based media does not have audio description available.
    • We estimate it would take 1.48 working hours to edit the videos to be accessible. The staff costs are estimated at £59.96.
  • There is no sign language interpretation for all prerecorded audio content.
    • We estimate it would take 2.04 working hours to edit the videos to be accessible. The staff costs are estimated at £83.75.
  • The time-based media does not have extended audio description available.
    • We estimate it would take 1.48 working hours to edit the videos to be accessible. The staff costs are estimated at £59.96.
  • There are no media alternatives (prerecorded) for the time-based media.
    • We estimate it would take 2.04 working hours to edit the videos to be accessible. The staff costs are estimated at £83.75.

Due to being a Primary and Secondary SEND Academy, we are partially exempt from the accessibility regulations.  Therefore, it has been found, through assessment, that the above is not needed in our compliance, and it is a disproportionate burden within the meaning of the accessibility regulations.  We will make another assessment in the next review February 2026.

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.

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared on 18/09/2025. It was last reviewed on 31/08/2025.

This website was last tested on 14/08/2025 against the WCAG 2.2 AA standard.

The test was carried out by Fortis Trust. Pages were tested by our website team. A further audit of the website was carried out to the WCAG 2.2 AA standard.