Accessibility Statement
General
Wickham & Knowle Parish Council strives to ensure that its services are accessible to everyone. The Council is working to ensure its website is made easier to use and more accessible for people with disabilities or additional needs.
Accessibility of www.wickhamparishcouncil.org
www.wickhamparishcouncil.org makes available the UserWay Website Accessibility Widget that is powered by a dedicated accessibility server. The software allows www.whiteleytowncouncil.co.uk to improve its compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1).
Enabling the Accessibility Menu
The www.wickhamparishcouncil.org accessibility menu can be enabled either by clicking the tab key when the page first loads . After triggering the accessibility menu, please wait a moment for the accessibility menu to load in its entirety.
The menu allows you 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.
Disclaimer
In an ongoing effort to continually improve and remediate accessibility issues, we also regularly scan www.whiteleytowncouncil.co.uk with UserWay’s Accessibility Scanner to identify and fix every possible accessibility barrier on our site. Despite our efforts to make all pages and content on www.whiteleytowncouncil.co.uk fully accessible, some content may not have yet been fully adapted to the strictest accessibility standards. This may be a result of not having found or identified the most appropriate technological solution.
This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard, due to:
- Some older pdf documents may not be fully accessible to screen reader software. The accessibility regulations do not require us to fix PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018. Any new pdf documents published will meet accessibility standards.
- The Facebook feed on the home page may not have adequate colour contrast. Link to Facebook page is given.
Contact Us
If you wish to report an accessibility issue, have any questions or need assistance, please contact:
