-
Notifications
You must be signed in to change notification settings - Fork 0
/
accessibility_statement.html
79 lines (54 loc) · 4.51 KB
/
accessibility_statement.html
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
<!DOCTYPE html>
<!--
To change this license header, choose License Headers in Project Properties.
To change this template file, choose Tools | Templates
and open the template in the editor.
-->
<html>
<head>
<title>Accessibility Statement for Newbiggin Parish Council website</title>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
</head>
<body>
<h2 id="accessibility-statement-for-website-name">Accessibility statement for https://newbigginparishcouncil.co.uk/</h2>
<p>This accessibility statement applies to the website for Newbiggin parish Council, Cumbria, UK.</p>
<p>This website is run by Newbiggin 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:</p>
<ul>
<li>zoom in up to 300% without the text spilling off the screen</li>
<li>navigate most of the website using just a keyboard</li>
<li>navigate most of the website using speech recognition software</li>
<li>listen to most of the website using a screen reader (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)</li>
</ul>
<p>We’ve also made the website text as simple as possible to understand.</p>
<p><a rel="external" href="https://mcmw.abilitynet.org.uk/" class="govuk-link">AbilityNet</a> has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability.</p>
<h3 id="how-accessible-this-website-is">How accessible this website is</h3>
<p>We know some parts of this website are not fully accessible:</p>
<ul>
<li>the text will not reflow in a single column when you change the size of the browser window</li>
<li>you cannot modify the line height or spacing of text</li>
<li>most older PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="feedback-and-contact-information">Feedback and contact information</h3>
<p>If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille:</p>
<ul>
<li>Please see the "about" section of the website for contact details</li>
</ul>
<p>We’ll consider your request and get back to you in 10 days.</p>
<h3 id="reporting-accessibility-problems-with-this-website">Reporting accessibility problems with this website</h3>
<p>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, please use our "About" page to get in touch.</p>
<h3 id="enforcement-procedure">Enforcement procedure</h3>
<p>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, <a rel="external" href="https://www.equalityadvisoryservice.com/" class="govuk-link">contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS)</a>.</p>
<h2 id="technical-information-about-this-websites-accessibility">Technical information about this website’s accessibility</h2>
<p>Newbiggin 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.</p>
<h3 id="compliance-status">Compliance status</h3>
<div class="call-to-action">
<p>Our website is fully compliant with the <a rel="external" href="https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/" class="govuk-link">Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1</a> AA standard.</p>
<p>The accessibility regulations <a rel="external" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/952/regulation/4/made" class="govuk-link">do not require us to fix PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018</a> as they’re not essential to providing our services.</p>
<p>Any new PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards.</p>
<p>This statement was prepared on 9th Aug 2020. </p>
<p>This website was fully tested (by Newbiggin Parish Council) on 9th Aug 2020 when the site was awarded a 98% rating by Goggle's Lighthouse accessibility tool.</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>