Accessibility statement for Shapwick Parish Council

This website is run by Shapwick 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 Voice Over)

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:

  • the text will not reflow in a single column when you change the size of the browser window
  • you cannot 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
  • The moving images on the homepage cannot be paused, or controlled with a keyboard
  • Some parts of the homepage and some headings do not have a strong enough colour contrast

 

What to do if you cannot access parts of this website

If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF please

contact the clerk.

Parish Clerk: Mrs Sue Williams
Tel: 01458 210749
Email: shapwickpc@btinternet.com

 

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 the Clerk via

Email Clerk at: shapwickpc@btinternet.com

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 feedback or complaint, contact the Equality Advisory and Support

Service (EASS).

 

Contacting us by phone or email

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: the Clerk.

Parish Clerk: Mrs Sue Williams
Tel: 01458 210749
Email: shapwickpc@btinternet.com

We’ll consider your request and get back to you ASAP

 

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

The Parish is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public

Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

The majority of this website is compliant with the Web  Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard.

 

Non accessible content

Non compliance with the accessibility regulations

Some images may not have a text alternative, in which case some people using a screen reader

cannot access the information. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.1.1 (non-text content).

We plan to add text alternatives when we publish new content and aim to ensure our use of images

meets accessibility standards.

 

Disproportionate burden

Navigation and accessing information

It’s not always possible to change the device orientation from horizontal to vertical without

making it more difficult to view the content. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.3.4

(orientation).

It’s not possible for users to change text size without some of the content overlapping. This

fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.4.4 (resize text).

Legacy Coding issue within the creation of pages way lead some speech readers may have trouble

with the use ’em’ or ‘strong’, or stylesheets, instead of ‘i’, As WordPress evolves we hope this

will resolve.

 

Interactive tools and transactions

Some of our interactive forms are difficult to navigate using a keyboard. For example, because

some form controls are missing a ‘label’ tag.

We’ve assessed the cost of fixing the issues with navigation and accessing information, and with

interactive tools and transactions. We believe that doing so now would be a disproportionate

burden within the meaning of the accessibility regulations. We will review this in the

future.

 

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

PDFs and other documents

Some of our older PDFs and Word documents do not meet accessibility standards – for example,

they may not be structured so they’re accessible to a screen reader. This does not meet WCAG 2.1

success criterion 4.1.2 (name, role value).

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. By September 2020, we plan to either fix these or replace them with accessible HTML

pages.

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.

Any new PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards.

 

Online Mapping

Online mapping is excluded from these regulations. However we will provide essential addresses

in text format.

 

How we tested this website

This website is tested annually. These tests are carried out by Sitemorse.

 

What we’re doing to improve accessibility

  • We will continue to test all our content using our approval process.
  • We will test any new templates, layouts and functions.
  • We will act on and respond to all feedback we receive about issues using the website.

This statement was prepared August 2020.