Accessibility

This accessibility statement applies to www.greatalne-pc.gov.uk

Great Alne 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.

We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:

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 ( eg: NVDA (NonVisual Desktop Access))

We've also made the website text as simple as possible to understand.

Customising the website

AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability. This is an external site with suggestions to make your computer more accessible.

AbilityNet - My computer my way

With a few simple steps you can customise the appearance of our website to make it easier to read and navigate.

Display settings

In order to make our website easier to read and navigate, you can change display settings such as:

text size
colour and contrast
screen magnification
style sheets

How accessible this website is

Great Alne Parish Council takes the following measures to ensure accessibility:

some parts may not be fully compatible with screen readers
you may not be able to access all content by using the keyboard alone
not all media will have a transcript or be subtitled
some text may not reflow in a single column when you change the size of the browser window and at certain levels of magnification
some older PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software

Feedback Process

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of this site. Please contact us via:

Great Alne Parish Council

Mrs Gill Forman
9 Winchcombe Road
Alcester
Warwickshire
B49 6QL

tel: 0783 379 0375
clerk@greatalne-pc.gov.uk

We aim to respond to feedback within 5 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

The parish council is commited to make its website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

Compliance Status:

The website has been tested against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standard.

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.2 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.

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations

Information is conveyed as an image of text rather than as text itself so that it's not compatible with screen readers and other assistive technology
1.4.5 - Images of text
Not all our PDF's and Word documents meet accessibility standards.

We aim to improve our websites accessibility on a regular and continuous basis.

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

PDFs and other documents

Many of our older PDFs and Word documents do not meet accessibility standards - for example, they may not be structured so they're accessible to a screen reader. This does not meet WCAG 2.1 success criterion 4.1.2 (name, role value).

Some of our PDFs and Word documents are essential to providing our services. We will try to ensure any new PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards and where we find any that are not accessible we will rectify this as soon as possible.

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.

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared on 17/09/2020. It was last reviewed on 09/03/2026.

This website was last tested on 09/03/2026 against the WCAG 2.2 AA Standard.

The test was carried out internally by Stratford-on-Avon District Council webteam using automated testing tools and manual checks.

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