Gulf Language School is committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. We are continually improving the user experience for everyone and applying the relevant accessibility standards.

Measures to support accessibility

Gulf Language School takes the following measures to ensure accessibility of www.gls.edu:

  • Accessibility is included as a requirement when pages and templates are built, rather than added afterwards.
  • We run automated accessibility testing against our public pages and correct the issues it surfaces.
  • Pages provide a skip-to-content link and consistent landmarks — header, navigation, main content and footer — so keyboard and screen-reader users can move through them.
  • Each page declares its language and uses a single main heading, so assistive technology announces content correctly.
  • Images carry text alternatives, and decorative images are marked so screen readers skip them.
  • When a barrier is reported, we correct it in the page or the template rather than masking it with an overlay.

Conformance status

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) define requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. They define three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA.

www.gls.edu 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. We do not claim full conformance, and we have not obtained a third-party conformance certification.

Feedback

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of www.gls.edu. If you encounter an accessibility barrier, or you need information from this site in a different format, please contact us:

Please tell us the web address of the page and what you were trying to do, so that we can reproduce the problem. We aim to respond within 2 business days and to provide requested content in an alternative format within 5 business days. No one is required to use this website to apply to, enrol in, or obtain information about our programs — the same information and services are available by email, by telephone, or in person at either campus.

Compatibility with browsers and assistive technology

www.gls.edu is designed to be compatible with recent versions of Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari on current operating systems, and with the assistive technology commonly used with them, including screen readers and browser zoom or magnification. We have not completed formal testing with every browser and assistive-technology combination, and this site is not tested against browsers more than two major versions old.

Technical specifications

Accessibility of www.gls.edu relies on the following technologies to work with the particular combination of web browser and any assistive technologies or plugins installed on your computer: HTML, WAI-ARIA, CSS and JavaScript. These technologies are relied upon for conformance with the accessibility standards used.

Limitations and alternatives

Despite our best efforts to ensure accessibility of www.gls.edu, there may be some limitations. Below is a description of known limitations. Please contact us if you observe an issue not listed below.

  • Embedded third-party services. Some pages include tools we do not control, including our online enquiry and application forms and our chat assistant. Their accessibility depends on those providers. If one of them prevents you from completing a task, contact us and we will take your information directly by email, telephone or in person.
  • Documents published before this statement. Some PDF documents may not be fully tagged for screen readers. We will provide an accessible version, or the same information in another format, on request.
  • Third-party and user-supplied media. Where content is supplied by an external organisation, captions or text alternatives may be incomplete. We will supply an alternative on request.

Assessment approach

Gulf Language School assessed the accessibility of www.gls.edu by self-evaluation, carried out internally using automated accessibility testing tools together with manual review of page structure. This website has not been evaluated by an external accessibility auditor.

Legal framework and formal complaints

We work to meet our obligations under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Gulf Language School is affiliated with North American University.

If you contact us about an accessibility barrier and you are not satisfied with our response, you may raise the matter with the administration of North American University, or file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

This statement applies to www.gls.edu. It was created on 14 September 2026 using the W3C Accessibility Statement Generator structure, and was last reviewed on 14 September 2026.