Accessibility statement

Council website

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard, due to the non-compliances listed below.

Non-accessible content

The content listed below is non-accessible for the following reasons.

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations

Text alternatives

Some of the images on our site do not have an appropriate text alternative, so people using a screen reader cannot access the information. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.1.1 (non-text content). We plan to fix this by March 2024.

Navigable

Some of our ‘skip to main content’ links to do not work properly. This can make it difficult for those using a screen reader to access our content. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 2.4.1 (bypass blocks). This is in progress with our supplier and we aim to have a fix by March 2024.

Readable

Some of our content does not have the ‘language’ correctly defined. This can cause problems for users accessing our content using a screen reader. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 3.1.1 (language of page) and success criterion 3.1.2 (language of parts). This is in progress with our supplier and we aim to have a fix by March 2024.

Predictable

A small number of our forms do not have a ‘submit’ button. This can cause problems for people using the form without a keyboard. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 3.2.2 (on input). This is in progress with our supplier and we aim to have a fix by March 2024.

Compatible

Some of our content uses duplicate ID’s. This can make it difficult for those using a screen reader to access our content. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 4.1.1 (parsing). We hope to have a fix in place by March 2024.

Some of our links do not contain machine-readable text content. This can make it difficult for assistive technologies to access this content. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 4.1.2 (name, role, value). This is in progress with our supplier and we aim to have a fix by March 2024.

PDFs and other documents

We are undertaking a review of all of our files published after 23 September 2018 and committee meeting minutes published after 23 September 2019. We plan to complete this by March 2024.