Southill Parish Council is committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. It seeks to apply the relevant accessibility standards to its web site, and to improve the user experience for everyone.
Conformance status
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA. Southill Parish Council is partially conformant with WCAG 2.1 level AA. Partially conformant means that some parts of the content do not fully conform to the accessibility standard. Known limitations resulting in partial conformance are given below.
Feedback
The Council welcomes your feedback on the accessibility of its web site. Please contact the Clerk to the Council if you encounter accessibility barriers.
Compatibility with browsers and assistive technology
Southill Parish Council’s web site is designed to be compatible with the following assistive technologies:
- Mobile Phones
- PC and Mac Computers
- All Tablet devices
- All known Browsers
- Screen Readers
Technical specifications
Accessibility of Southill Parish Council’s web site relies on the following technologies to work with the particular combination of web browser and any assistive technologies or plugins installed on your computer:
- HTML (hypertext markup language)
- CSS (cascading style sheets)
- JavaScript
These technologies are relied upon for conformance with the accessibility standards used.
Limitations
Despite our best efforts to ensure accessibility of Southill Parish Council’s web site, there are limitations. Below is a description of known limitations.
- Missing image text: Uploaded images may not have text alternatives.
- Older documents not compliant: Documents (especially Meeting minutes prior to 2019) may not comply with accessibility guidelines.
- Reports not compliant: Reports provided to the Council by third parties are published as received and may not comply with accessibility guidelines.
- Site Search does not look at documents: The Search function is unable to find any results in PDF (portable document format) documents such as meeting agendas, meeting minutes, reports and governance documents.
Assessment approach
Southill Parish Council assessed the accessibility of its web site by self evaluation.
Formal approval of this accessibility statement
This Accessibility Statement has been approved by the Southill Parish Council at its meeting on 6th July 2020.