Accessibility Statement

Accessibility Statement for Hackington Parish Council

Hackington Parish Council is committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. We are continually improving the user experience for everyone, and applying the relevant accessibility standards.

Measures to support accessibility

Hackington Parish Council takes the following measures to ensure accessibility of Hackington Parish Council:

  • Include accessibility as part of our mission statement.

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. Hackington 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.

Feedback

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of Hackington Parish Council. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers on Hackington Parish Council:

We try to respond to feedback within .

Compatibility with browsers and assistive technology

Hackington Parish Council 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 Hackington Parish Council 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
  • CSS
  • JavaScript

These technologies are relied upon for conformance with the accessibility standards used.

Limitations and alternatives

Despite our best efforts to ensure accessibility of https://hackington-pc.gov.uk/, there may be some limitations. Below is a description of known limitations, and potential solutions. Please contact us if you observe an issue not listed below.

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations  The content below is non-accessible for the following reasons:

  1. Comments from users: Uploaded images may not have text alternatives because We cannot ensure the quality of contributions. because Some older PDFs may not comply.
  2. Older documents created using non compliant PDF software. Documents created prior to December 2019 may not be compliant. If you find that a document is not compliant, please let us know and we will do our best to provide a compliant version. It would be a disporportionate burden to go back and amend all historic documentation.
  3. Content not within scope of the accessibility regulations.

Assessment approach

Hackington Parish Council assessed the accessibility of Hackington Parish Council by the following approaches:

  • Self-evaluation

Formal approval of this accessibility statement

This Accessibility Statement is approved by:

Hackington Parish Council
Samantha Paterson
Clerk to the Council