Accessibility Center
Accessibility Support
Bakersfield College recognizes the importance and benefits of using technology to enhance student learning, especially as it helps students, faculty and staff communicate more effectively. Our goal is to provide content that is accessible to all individuals, regardless of their abilities.
- For guidance and resources in preparing your electronic documents and content, visit our Accessibility Training Resources.
- Bakersfield College students with disabilities are encouraged to take advantage of the services provided by Disabled Students Programs & Services.
Accessibility Statement
Measures to support accessibility
Bakersfield College takes the following measures to ensure accessibility of the college:
- Include accessibility throughout our internal policies.
- Integrate accessibility into our procurement practices.
- Provide continual accessibility training for our staff.
- Assign clear accessibility goals and responsibilities.
- Employ formal accessibility quality assurance methods.
Conformance status
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA. Bakersfield College is partially conformant with WCAG 2.1 level AA. Partially conformant means that some parts of the content do not fully conform to the accessibility standard. See “Limitations and alternatives” below for specific parts of nonconformance.
Additional accessibility considerations
Although our goal is WCAG 2.1 Level AA conformance, we have also applied some Level AAA Success Criteria: Images of text are only used for decorative purposes. Color contrast ratio for text is at least 3:1 ratio.
Contact and Reporting an Issue
If you are having problems registering for a class, contact the Student Information Desk via Zoom.
For problems with logging into InsideBC, Starfish, Canvas, etc. contact the Help Desk or call (877) 382-3508.
Contact and Reporting an Accessibility Barrier
We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of Bakersfield College. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers on Bakersfield College:
- Contact form: Report a Barrier
- E-mail Web Team: accessibility@bakersfieldcollege.edu
- Phone: (661) 395-4251
- TTY: (661) 395-4959
- E-mail DSPS: dspsdesk@bakersfieldcollege.edu
- Mail:
Bakersfield College
Web Team, Marketing & Public Relations
1801 Panorama Drive
Bakersfield, CA 93313
We try to respond to feedback within 3 business days.
Limitations and alternatives
Despite our best efforts to ensure accessibility of Bakersfield College, there may be some limitations. Below is a description of known limitations, and potential solutions.
Known limitations for Bakersfield College:
- YouTube Videos: may not have audio descriptions because many videos need to be remediated. We are in the process of adding audio descriptions to our videos. Please use the Report a Barrier form if you encounter a video and you need an audio description.
- Links to external websites not maintained by Bakersfield College: may lead to websites that do not meet the same accessibility standards because Third-party sites are outside our control. We make every effort to link to websites that are accessible. If you encounter an issue with the accessibility of an external link on our website, please use the Report a Barrier form. We will make every effort to provide the information in an accessible format and, if possible, update the link to a more accessible alternative.
Formal Complaints
For specific timelines and procedures, please see our Web Accessibility Complaint and Resolutions Process.
This statement was created on June 10 2025 with the help of the W3C Accessibility Statement Generator Tool.
Keyboard Commands
The following are common keyboard commands for navigating and interacting in the most common web browsers.
| Action | Windows keys | Mac OS keys |
|---|---|---|
| Go back a page | Alt + left arrow | Command + left arrow |
| Go forward a page | Alt + right arrow | Command + left arrow |
| Increase text size | Control + plus sign | Command + plus sign |
| Decrease text size | Control + minus sign | Command + minus sign |
| Restore text to default | Control + 0 | Command + 0 |
| Move to next form field | Tab | Tab |
| Move to previous form field | Shift + tab | Shift + tab |
| Close the window | Control + w | Command + w |
Additional keyboard commands for specific browsers:
