Hartshorne Parish Council Website Accessibility Statement

This accessibility statement applies to this website.

This website is run by Hartshorne Parish Council. The Parish Council 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 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:

• Our historical meeting records are in PDF format and may not be compatible with screen reader software
• you cannot modify the line height or spacing of text
• most older PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software
• live video streams do not have captions
• some of our online forms are difficult to navigate using just a keyboard
• you cannot skip to the main content when using a screen reader
• there’s a limit to how far you can magnify the map on our ‘contact us’ page

Feedback and contact information

If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille please contact the clerk or email pc.clerking@aol.co.uk

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, pleases contact us.

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

Hartshorne 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

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard, due to the exemptions listed below.

Non-accessible content

The aim of Hartshorne Parish Council is to make the content on this website as accessible as possible.

As such Hartshorne Parish Council do not:

· Provide downloadable content for website users.

· Use any trackers or cookies to gather any data on site visitors.

· Keep images to minimum, but use then to provide some perspective on the Parish of Hartshorne.

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.

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

PDFs and other documents

The accessibility regulations do not require us to fix PDFs or other documents published before April 2020 if they’re not essential to providing our services.

The agenda’s and minutes published prior to February 2020 are in PDF format on our Previous Meetings page. We have left the pages available in the public interest, but are not intending to update them as their value deminishes with time.

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

Live video

Hartshorne Parish Council will not use live video streams even though live video is exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations.

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared on 10^th May 2023. It was last reviewed on 10^th May 2023.