Accessibility statement

Accessibility statement for Aldercar & Langley Mill Parish Council

www.aldercarandlangleymill-pc.gov.uk

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 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.

How accessible this website is

We know some parts of this website aren’t fully accessible:
• Scanned PDF documents with handwritten comments aren’t fully
accessible to screen reader software.

What to do if you can’t access parts of this website

If you need information on this website in a different format like
accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille:
• Email: officemananger@aldercarandlangleymill-pc.gov.uk
• Call: 01157 844369
We’ll consider your request and get back to you in 5 working days.

Reporting accessibility problems with this website

• We’re always looking to improve the accessibility of this website. If you
find any problems that aren’t listed on this page or think we’re not
meeting accessibility requirements,
• Email: officemanager@aldercarandlangleymill.gov.uk
• Call: 01157 844369

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

Aldercar & Langley Mill 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.
• Some Scanned PDF documents which have handwritten comments

Non compliance with the accessibility regulations

Some PDF images don’t have a text alternative, so the information in
them isn’t available to people using a screen reader. This doesn’t meet
WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.1.1 (Scanned image-text content).
We plan to rectify all scanned image PDFs as soon as we can. When we
publish new content we’ll make sure our use of PDF scanned images
meets accessibility standards.

Content that’s not within the scope of the accessibility regulations

PDFs and other documents
Many of our Scanned image PDFs and Word documents don’t meet
accessibility standards - for example, they may not be structured so
they’re accessible to a screen reader. This doesn’t meet WCAG 2.1
success criterion 4.1.2
Any new PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility
standards.

What we’re doing to improve accessibility

We plan to improve accessibility on this website on each and every
update which takes place on a monthly basis.
This statement was prepared on 9/9/2020.
This statement was reviewed on 17/2/2026.