Accessibility Statement for Great Ashfield Parish Council

This website is run by Great Ashfield Parish Council.  We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website.  For example, this means that 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 have 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 are not fully accessible:

  • you cannot modify the line height or spacing of text
  • most older PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software
  • some older Word documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software
  • we cannot guarantee the full accessibility of our Newsletter or externally published documents

What to do if you cannot access parts of this website

 If you need information on this website in a different format, then please contact the Parish Clerk at:

email: greatashfieldpc@outlook.com

We will consider your request and get back to you within 31 days.

Reporting accessibility problems with this website

We are always looking for ways to improve the accessibility of this website. If you discover any problems not listed on this page or if you think we are not meeting accessibility requirements, then please email the Parish Clerk on greatashfieldpc@outlook.com for further assistance.

Enforcement Procedure

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is responsible for enforcing Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No.2) Accessibility Regulations 2018 (the 'accessibility regulations').  If you are not happy with how we respond to your complaint you should contact the Equality Advisory Support Service (EASS).

Technical information about the accessibility of this website

Great Ashfield Parish Council is committed to making its website accessible in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Website Mobile Applications) (No.2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

This website is compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard.

How this website was tested

This website was tested on 19th October 2020.  The was performed using Wave Accessiblity Software.

We tested our main website platform, available at http://greatashfield.onesuffolk.net/

What we are doing to improve accessibility

We are constantly looking at our the accessibility of our website and its content and where we can improve it we will.  Going forward we will follow a specific set of guidelines to ensure all our content complies with WCAG 2.1 Standard.

This statement was prepared on 19th October 2020.  It was last updated on 19th October 2020.