Accessibility statement for Farnham Royal Parish Council website
This accessibility statement applies to content hosted on the farnhamroyal-pc.gov.uk domain.
This website is run by Farnham Royal Parish Council. 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 in your browser
- 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. https://mcmw.abilitynet.org.uk
How accessible this website is
We know some parts of this website are not fully accessible:
- A very few older PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software
- You cannot modify the line height or spacing of text
Feedback and contact information
If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille, we’ll consider your request and get back to you as soon as we can:
- email clerk@farnhamroyal-pc.gov.uk
- call 01753 648497
- write to The Clerk, Mrs Judith Hall
Address: Sherriff House, The Broadway, Farnham Common SL2 3QH
Reporting accessibility problems with this website
We’re always looking to improve the accessibility of this website. If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, contact us:
- email clerk@farnhamroyal-pc.gov.uk
- call 01753 648497
- write to The Clerk, Mrs Judith Hall
Address: Sherriff House, The Broadway, Farnham Common SL2 3QH
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).
[Note: if your organisation is based in Northern Ireland, refer users who want to complain to the Equalities Commission for Northern Ireland (ECNI) instead of the EASS and EHRC.]
Contacting us by phone or visiting us in person
You can get in contact on our Contact page https://farnhamroyal-pc.gov.uk/contact
Technical information about this website’s accessibility
Farnham Royal 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.
Compliance status
This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard, due to the non-compliances and exemptions’ listed below.
Non-accessible content
PDFs and other documents
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.
Any new PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards.
Some previous text content is not written in plain English. When we publish new content, we’ll make sure it meets the accessibility standards.
Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations
We have addressed the accessibility problems. When we publish new content, we’ll make sure our use of images and text meet accessibility standards. We’re always looking to improve the accessibility of this website. If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, please contact us as detailed above.
Disproportionate burden
None specified beyond older PDFs and documents before 23 September 2018.
Content that’s not within the scope of the accessibility regulations
PDFs and other documents
Some of our current PDFs and Word documents are essential to providing our services. For example, we have PDFs with information on how users can access our services.
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
Any new PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards.
Live video
We do not plan to add captions to any live video streams because live video is exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations.
What we’re doing to improve accessibility
Our accessibility roadmap shows how and when we plan to improve accessibility on this website.
1st July 2021 Completion of work and re-publication of the Accessibility Statement
Preparation of this accessibility statement
It was last reviewed on 23rd June 2021.
This website was last tested on 23rd June 2021. The tests were done by Candoo Web Design and Hosting.
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