Accessibility Statement

This accessibility statement applies to the web pages lying under the parish council tab on the Guiting Events website.

Guiting Power Parish Council is committed to making its website as accessible as possible.

For example, that means you should be able to:

change colours, contrast levels and fonts
zoom in up to 200% 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.

How accessible is this website

We know some parts of this website are not fully accessible:

the text will not reflow in a single column when you change the size of the browser window
you cannot easily modify the line height or spacing of text
some older PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software
archived agendas and minutes for 2015 & 2016 are in large single PDF's

Reporting accessibility problems and Feedback

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: the Parish Clerk.
If you need assistance with accessing information or to report an issue on this website contact the Parish Clerk:

Phone: 01451 810611
email: guitingpowerpc@gmail.com
Postal address: The Clerk, GPPC, Park View, Honington Shipston on Stour CV36 5AA

We will aim to respond within 14 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).

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

Guiting Power 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.

Compliance status

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard, due to the non-compliances and exemptions listed below.

Non-accessible content

Some PDF's particularly relating to audits are created from scanned documents Until we are supplied with official versions of these documents which allow us to meet the accessibility requirements, they cannot be corrected. We will reassess this each year.
Some externally supplied, interactive PDFs may not be fully compliant. We have no control over these documents.

Skip content is available on first access via the TAB key

Large changes in text size may cause some content overlapping.

Accessibility relies on the following technologies to work with the particular combination of web browser and any assistive technologies or plugins installed on your computer:

HTML5
CSS3
Javascript
PDF

Disproportionate burden

It would be costly in time and resources and beyond the councils budget to correct the following,

the text will not reflow in a single column when you change the size of the browser window
you cannot easily modify the line height or spacing of text
reformat existing scanned documents to enable read aloud or screen reader technology.

Current content exempt from the accessibility regulations

The following are currently exempt from the Accessibility regulations

heritage collections such as scanned manuscripts
PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018 – unless needed to use a service.
maps – information may be available in address format
third party content under someone else’s control
content on intranets or extranets published before 23 September 2019

What we’re doing to improve accessibility

The website is audited annually to ensure compliance and all new documents added to the website will be checked for accessibility.

We will switch to CSS Grid layout when after a 6 month period all browsers accessing the site support it.

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared on 19 August 2020. It was last reviewed on 1 June 2024. This website was last tested on 1 June 2024. The Parish council does it's own testing.
All pages were tested; where used at least two random linked documents per page were reviewed.