The Barford Villages Accessibility Statement

Accessibility statement for http://thebarfordvillages.co.uk/

This accessibility statement applies to http://thebarfordvillages.co.uk/

This website is run by Barford St. John & St. Michael 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:
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.

AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability.

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 modify the line height or spacing of text.
Most older PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software.
Live video streams do not have captions.

Feedback and contact information:
If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille:

email : Contact@FireGecko.co.uk
We’ll consider your request and get back to you in 5 days.

Reporting accessibility problems with this website:
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: Contact@FireGecko.co.uk

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:

Barford St. John & St. Michael 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:
http://thebarfordvillages.co.uk/ meets most requirements of the WCAG 2.1 AA standard.

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

Some images do not have a text alternative, so people using a screen reader cannot access the information. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.1.1 (non-text content).
When we publish new content we’ll make sure our use of images meets accessibility standards.

Area of the website that would be a disproportionate burden to amend:
There’s no way to skip the repeated content in the page header (for example, a ‘skip to main content’ option).

It’s not always possible to change the device orientation from horizontal to vertical without making it more difficult to view the content.

It’s not possible for users to change text size without some of the content overlapping.

We’ve assessed the cost of fixing the issues with navigation and accessing information, and with interactive tools and transactions. We believe that doing so now would be a disproportionate burden within the meaning of the accessibility regulations.

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.

Live video
We do not plan to add captions to live video streams because live video is exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations.

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared on 23rd September, 2020.
It was last reviewed on 23rd September, 2020.

This website was last tested on 23rd September, 2020. The test was carried out by Contact@FireGecko.co.uk.

We used Accessibility Insights Tool in Google Chrome to test all web pages in http://thebarfordvillages.co.uk/