This accessibility statement applies https://husthwaitevillage.com/pc.php
This website is part of the Husthwaite Village website and we want as many people as possible to be able to use the website. For example, that means you should be able to:
- Zoom in up to 300% without text spilling off the screen
- Navigate most of the website using just a keyboard
- Navigate most of the website using speech recognition software
- Listen using a screen reader
We would also like to make the website text as simple as possible to understand. https://abilitynet.org.uk/ has advice on making your devise 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 change colours or contrast on the static website pages (which only have Bios of the current councillors)
- You cannot change the size of the text on these pages either,
- You can listen to the text using screen reading the website with the correct software/browser although not all browsers seem to allow it
- All documents however are fully accessible, with ability to change colour, font, size of text, navigate using keyboard and use the read aloud functions if they are stored as PDF files.
Feedback and contact information
If you need information on this website in a different format like large print, easy read or braille:
- Email: husthwaitepc@hotmail.co.uk
- Telephone: 01347 868130
We will consider your request and respond within 7 days
Reporting accessibility problems with this website
We’re looking to improve accessibility of the website for all. If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we are not meeting accessibility requirements, contact our clerk on the email or phone listed above.
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. If you are not happy with how we respond to your complaint, contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS).
Technical information about this website’s accessibility
Husthwaite Parish Council is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No.22) Accessibility Regulations 2018.
Compliance Status
This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard.
Non-Accessible Content
We know that certain aspects of the website and certain browsers that people use may prevent it from being fully accessible. A new parish website is being explored but has currently (Sept 2020) been put on hold due to Covid 19 and the people involved being in the vulnerable category.
PDFs and Word Documents
We will ensure all documents essential to providing our service will be in an accessible format going forwards and we will fix PDFs published after 23 September 2018 if required as essential for providing our service. The accessibility regulations do not require us to fix PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018 if they are not essential to providing our service and we do not plan to fix these files.
Any new documents will be PDFs to meet accessibility standards.
Preparation of this accessibility statement
This statement was prepared on 1 September 2020.
On future development we will be testing accessibility with the help of using https://wave.webaim.org/