Accessibility statement for Sowerby Parish Council
This accessibility statement applies to our website https://www.sowerbyparishcouncil.org.ukThis website is run by Sowerby 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:
- zoom in up to 150% 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 for example ChromeVox )
- We’ve also made every effort 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 some parts of this website are not fully accessible:
- you cannot modify the line height or spacing of text
Feedback and contact information
If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print or easy read:
- contact us using the details on our contact page
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 us using the details on our contact page.
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
Sowerby 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.
Compliance status
To our knowledge, and for all practical purpsoes, this website is fully compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard.
Disproportionate burden
Content that’s not within the scope of the accessibility regulations
PDFs and other documents
Some of our PDF documents are essential to providing our services.
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.
Live video
In the event that we publish live video in the future, we do not plan to add captions to live video streams because live video is exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations.
What we’re doing to improve accessibility
We continually assess the accessibility of our website using Internet standard tools and procedures and make the necessary adjaustments as they arise.
Preparation of this accessibility statement
This statement was prepared on [date when it was first published]. It was last reviewed on [date when it was last reviewed].
This website was last tested on 15th October 2020.
We carried out our own testing using the tests developed by Microsoft on the website https://accessibilityinsights.io/
We used this facility to test all the public pages on our website.