We're committed to communicating in a way that is easy to understand
Why? We want to help as many people as possible to find out about coaching and nurture their coaching skills.
Research shows that even people with the highest literacy levels prefer easy-to-read content. They say it allows them to understand more quickly. That's why we try to make all our content easy to read even when it's aimed at coaching academics and educators.
General Accessibility Features
Writing Style
We write in Plain English by using short sentences and straight-forward vocabulary.
Alternative text
We include meaningful alternative text for images to describe them or their function. This is especially useful when listening through a screen reader and are generally only visible when the browser's automatic image loading feature is turned off.
PDFs
We are moving away from PDF downloads and migrating content to web pages. However there are some exceptional cases where PDFs are necessary.
For more information about PDF accessibility, visit the Adobe website accessibility section.
Links
We write all text links in a way that they makes sense when they are read out.
Text size
The text on our website has been styled so that you can easily change the text size using your browser settings.
For more information about and help with changing your browser settings, please visit the BBC's My Web My Way pages.
Colour contrast
Most of our text is a dark colour on a white background. Where we've put white text on a dark colour to highlight key points, we make the font large enough so that it is easy to read.
Get in Touch
We are also aiming to make sure that transcripts or subtitles are available for our audio and video content. If you have any accessibility issues with our website, please get in touch.
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