Accessibility Statement

Accessibility Statement

Accessibility Statement for www.greatyeldhampc.co.uk

Great Yeldham Parish Council run this website. 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 200% without the text spilling off the screen
  • only use a keyboard to navigate most of our website
  • navigate most of the website using speech recognition software

AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability.

 

How accessible our website is

We are currently in the process of evaluating our website to check if it meets the Web Content Access guidelines 2.1 AA standard (WCAG). We know some parts of this website aren’t fully accessible.

 

What to do if you can’t access parts of this website

If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, Word, large print

Email: clerk@greatyeldhampc.co.uk  or telephone: 01787 237832

We’ll consider your request and get back to you in within 5 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, you can email clerk@greatyeldhampc.co.uk

 

Enforcement procedure

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is responsible for enforcing 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

Great Yeldham 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 partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard.  We know some parts of this website are not AA accessible and we working to fix these and any other accessibility issues.

 

Disproportionate Burden

Presently, we have not identified anything that qualifies as disproportionate burden, but we are still evaluating our site and may update this when we identify issues.

 

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

We do not have to make PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018 accessible, if:

  • they’re not essential to providing our services
  • a member of the public has published them
  • another organisation has published them

We do not have to make PDFs or other documents published after 23 September 2018 accessible, if:

  • a member of the public has published them
  • another organisation has published them

 

What we’re doing to improve accessibility

We plan to improve accessibility on this website by regularly monitoring the accessibility of our website

 

Preparation of this accessibility statement

We prepared this statement on 21st September 2020. It was last reviewed on 21st September 2020.