This accessibility statement applies to www.shillingford.org.uk

This website is run by Shillingford Parish Council. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:

• navigate most of the website using just a keyboard
• navigate most of the website using speech recognition software
• listen to most of the website using a screen reader 

We’ve 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.

How accessible this website is

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

• you can’t modify the line height or spacing of text
• most older PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software
  
• some of our online forms are difficult to navigate using just a keyboard
• you cannot skip to the main content when using a screen reader
  

Feedback and contact information

If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF or large print, please contact Shillingford Parish Clerk - Maureen Adams

• email  shillingfordpc@gmail.com
  

• 07718

We’ll consider your request and get back to you in 15 working days.

Reporting accessibility problems with this website

We’re always looking to improve the accessibility of this website. If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, contact Shillingford Parish Clerk via email -  shillingfordpc@gmail.com or call 07886004919

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’re not happy with how we respond to your complaint, contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS).

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

Shillingford Parish Council is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

This website is currently partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard, due to the non- compliances listed below.

Non-accessible content

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

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations

• There may be pages with read more / click here links. See WCAG 2.4 Success Criterion 4.4 (Link Purpose (In Context)
• There may be some pages where HTML isn’t perfectly formed, such as stray end tags. See WCAG 2.1 success criterion 4.1.1 (Parsing).
• Many of our older PDFs and Word documents don’t meet accessibility standards - for example, they may not be structured so they’re accessible to a screen reader. See WCAG 2.1 success criterion 4.1.2 (name, role value).
  

Content that’s not within the scope of the accessibility regulations

PDFs and other documents

Some of our PDFs and Word documents are essential to providing our services. For example, we have PDFs with information on how users can access our services, and forms published as Word documents. For example we do not plan to fix archive documents of parish council meetings or archived accounts and audits.

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.

Future PDFs or Word documents we publish will either meet accessibility standards or we will use accessible HTML pages.

How we tested this website

This website was tested prior to the writing of this statement. The tests were carried out by a volunteer on behalf of Shillingford Parish Council.

This statement was prepared September 2020.