Accessibility Statement for Mathon Parish Council Website

Mathon Parish Council is committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. We
are continually improving the user experience for everyone, and applying the relevant accessibility
standards.

The following accessibility statement applies to https://mathonparishcouncil.co.uk/
This website is operated by Mathon Parish Council and 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
• Use most of the website with a screen reader (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)

 

How accessible is this website

Despite our best efforts to ensure accessibility of Mathon Parish Council website, there may be some
limitations. Please contact us if you observe an issue not listed below.

• Important messages are marked up in a way that the screen readers knows they’re
  important (Perceivable)
• Use descriptive links so users know where a link will take them, or what downloadable linked
  in (Operable)
• Make it clear what language the content is written in, indicate if this changes
  (Understandable)
• Make sure all fields have visible and meaningful labels – and that they’re marked up properly
  (Understandable)

 

Feedback and Contact Information

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of Mathon Parish Council website. Please let us
know if you encounter accessibility barriers on Mathon Parish Council website:

• • Contact: Diana Taylor
  • Phone: 01684 569430
  • E-mail: dtaylormathonclerk235@gmail.com
  • Postal address: 9 Lambourne Avenue, Malvern, Worcestershire. WR14 1NL

 

We aim to respond to feedback within 7 business days.

 

Compatibility with browsers and assistive technology

Mathon Parish Council website is designed to be compatible with the following assistive
technologies:

• Mobile phones
• PC and Mac Computers
• All tablet devices
• All known browsers
• Screen readers

 

Reporting accessibility problems with this website

We are always looking to improve the accessibility of this website. If you find any problems not
listed on this page or think we are not meeting accessibility requirement, contact Diana Taylor,
https://mathonparishcouncil.co.uk/#cont

 

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 are not happy with how we respond to your complaint, contact the Equality
Advisory and Support Service (EASS). (https://www.equalityadvisoryservice.com/).

 

Technical Information about this website’s accessibility

Mathon Parish Council is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public
Sector Bodies (Website and Mobile Applications) (No.l2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

 

Compliance Status

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1
(https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/) AA standard, due to ‘the non-compliances’.

 

Non-accessible content

The content listed below is non-accessible for the following reasons :-

• To ensure a screen reader can distinguish between ‘marked important’ content
• Indicating link’s entering to automatic download
• Indicate the site is set to UK English
• Contact form selections and Google re-captcha

 

Disproportionate Burden

Known solutions for Mathon Parish Council that are currently a disproportionate burden:

• Colours are used alongside text, complying with both ‘use the proper mark-up for every
  feature (for example, forms and data tables), so the relationship between content are
  defined properly’ and ‘not use colour as the only way to explain or distinguish something’.
  Further development would be, exploring the colour palette, adding additional colour to
  help distinguish the most important forms of information, whilst adding a colour switcher.
  With added development to ensure a screen reader can distinguish between ‘marked
  important’ content
• For downloading PDF’s the entry box is indicated as ‘read more’. Further development
  would be to update this to ‘view and download’ with an indication to the link’s entering to
  automatic download.
• The site is set to UK English, further development would be to note this and a add
  translations if required.
• For the contact form, further development would involve adding additional selections, to
  streamline and enable a variety of selections towards an enquiry, with google re-captcha.

 

We’ve assessed the cost of fixing the above issues. We believe that doing so now would be a
disproportionate burden within the meaning of the accessibility regulations,
(http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/952/regulation/7/made). We will make another
assessment when the supplier contract is up for renewal, likely to be July 2021.

 

Preparation of this Accessibility Statement

This statement was prepared on 06.10.20. It was last reviewed on 06.10.20
This website was last tested on 02.09.20.