Accessibility Statement for St. Albans Parish Council
This website is run by St. Albans 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 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:
- most older PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software.
- some statutory documents cannot be made accessible but must be published on the website.
some information received from third parties and appended to the meeting papers may not be fully accessible.
Feedback and contact information
If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, or audio recording, or braille:
- email clerk@stalbanspc.org
- call 07857 774847
We will consider your request and get back to you within 15 working days.
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)
Reporting accessibility problems with this website
If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, or audio recording, or braille:
- email clerk@stalbanspc.org
- call 07857 774847
We will consider your request and get back to you within 15 working days.
Technical information about this website's accessibility
St. Albans 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 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 documents and PDFs are non-compliant as they are not readable by a screen viewer. These include documents created by St. Albans Parish Council as well as externally created documents.
St. Albans Parish Council is working to create accessible versions of all internal documents by 31st March 2021 however, some externally provided documents may not be able to be made accessible by this date.
The Council is required by law to publish certain documents as scans of signed paper originals, such as the Annual Governance and Accountability Return. These documents are not currently accessible.
The Council will provide alternative accessible documents which will have the same essential content on request.
Content that's not within the scope of the accessibility regulations
PDFs and other documents
Many of our older PDFs and Word documents do not meet accessibility standards – for example, they may not be structured so they’re accessible to a screen reader. This does not meet WCAG 2.1 success criterion 4.1.2 (name, role value).
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.
Any new PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards.
How we tested this website
This website was last tested on 15 September 2020 The test was carried out using Web Accessibility and Wave by St. Albans Parish Council.
No serious issues were identified in our testing, and two minor contrast issues were addressed.
We tested one (1) page from each page template to determine accessibility of each template.
This statement was prepared on 16th September 2020 and was last updated on 16th September 2020.