Accessibility Statement for Breadsall Parish Council
This website is run by Breadsall 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 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:
- you cannot modify the line height or spacing of text
- most older PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software
- you cannot skip to the main content when using a screen reader
- some of our links are poorly labelled, such as “click here” and require more appropriate labelling.
- our images do not have alternative text descriptions to allow for screen reader compatibility
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:
- Email clerk@breadsallparishcouncil.org.uk
- call 07766 110620
We’ll consider your request and get back to you in 10 working days.
If you cannot view the map on our ‘Home’ page, call or email us for directions.
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: clerk@breadsallparishcouncil.org.uk giving the page title and the nature of the problem.
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
Breadsall 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, due to due to the non-compliances listed below.
Non-accessible content
The content listed below is non-accessible for the following reasons.
Non-Compliance with the accessibility regulations
Some images do not have text alternative, so 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 for all images by 31st December 2020. When we publish new content we’ll make sure our use of images meets accessibility standards.
Navigation and accessing information
There’s no way to skip the repeated content in the page header (for example, a ‘skip to main content’ option).
It’s not always possible to change the device orientation from horizontal to vertical without making it more difficult to view the content.
PDF content published post 23rd September 2018
Content that’s not within the scope of the accessibility regulations
PDFs and other documents
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 31st of December 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. For example, we do not plan to fix Agendas or Minutes published prior to this date.
Any new PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards.
Live video
While we do not currently have live video content, in the event that we did so in the future we do not plan to add captions to live video streams because live video is exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations.
Preparation of this accessibility statement
This statement was prepared on 30th August 2020.
It was last reviewed on 30th August 2020
This website was last tested on 28th August 2020. The test was carried out by Breadsall Parish Council.
We tested www.breadsallparishcouncil.org.uk