Cholesbury-cum-St Leonards
Parish Council
Introduction
This accessibility statement applies to the website:
http://www.cholesburyparishcouncil.org.uk
This website is run by Cholesbury-cum-St Leonards 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:
- change colours, contrast levels and fonts
- zoom in up to 300% without the text spilling off the screen
- 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 (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)
We’ve also tried to make 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 the following parts of this website are not fully accessible:
- some older PDF documents and those including scanned images may not be fully accessible to screen reader software.
Requests for assistance or Feedback
If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDFs, large print, easy read, please contact the Parish Clerk:
email parishclerk.ccslpc@gmail.com
We’ll consider your request and get back to you within five working days.
Reporting accessibility problems with this website
We are 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 the Parish Clerk, See previous section.
For further information on contacting the Council please click here.
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
Cholesbury-cum-St Leonards ParishCouncil 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
This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard, due to the non-compliances and exemptions listed below.
Non-accessible content
The content listed below is non-accessible for the following reasons.(
Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations
- Certain PDF documents relating to the annual internal audit comprise scanned images which and content it has been found cannot be read by a screen reader and do not comply with accessibility requirements of WCAG 2.1
- Consideration could be given when the next audit report comes around as to whether the accessibility could be improved by changing the way such documents could be created?
Disproportionate burden
- Some of the older PDFs may not comply with and scanned documents may not comply with accessibility requirements of WCAG 2.1.
- We have assessed the cost of fixing these issues. We believe that doing so now would be a disproportionate burden within the meaning of the accessibility regulations. We will make another assessment before September 2022.
Content not in scope of the accessibility regulations
- Currently we do not have PDFs and Word documents that are essential to providing our services.
- The accessibility regulations do not require us to fix PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018. However we believe, if not all, almost all of these already comply. We do not plan to fix minutes and financial records more than five years old as they are no longer essential documents.
- There is no live video on this site and there are currently no plans to add live video in the future.
What we’re doing to improve accessibility
This website was tested during September 2020 by the Council’s website consultant, Dovedale Design. www.dovedaledesign.co.uk
We will conduct further testing, periodically review compliance and seek advice on how to improve compliance.
Preparation of this accessibility statement
This statement was prepared and published on 23rd September 2020. It was last reviewed in May 2023.