Accessibility

This statement applies to content published on the North Cockerington Parish Meeting Website, and is run by North Cockerington Parish Meeting.

We want as many people as possible to be able to use the website - for example you should be able to:

• change colours, contrast levels and fonts;
• zoom in up to 300 percent without 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 recent versions of JKAWS, NVDA, and VoiceOver).

We have aslo 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 are aware that parts of this website may not be fully accessible; for example:

• the text will not reflow in a single column when you change the size of the browser window
• you cannot modify the line height or spacing of text
• most older PDF documents are not fully accessiblity to screen reader software
• live video streams do not have captions
• some of our online forms are difficult to navigate using just a keyboard
• you cannot skip to the main content when using a screen reader
• some document attachments are not clearly written
• some graphics and document attachments have poor colour contrast
• some images do not have good alternative text
• some buttons are not correctly identified
• some forms are not hosted on an accessible platform
• some error messages are not clearly associated with form controls

Reporting accessibility problems with this website:

• If you find problems that are not listed on this page or you think we are not meeting accessibility requirements please contact us.
• Enforcement procedure:  If you contact us with a complaint and you are not happy with our response contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS).
• 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’).

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

• North Cockerington Parish Meeting is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.
• This website is compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard.

Non-accessible content:  The content that is not accessible is outlined below with details of:

• where it fails the success criteria
• planned dates for when issues will be fixed
• Content that is not within the scope of the accessibility regulations
• Images on pages do not always have suitable alternative text.
• Some images are missing alternative text,
• some have incomplete text and some have ‘placeholder’ as alternative text.
• This fails WCAG 1.1.1A success criterion (Non-text Content).
• PDFs and other documents - Many documents are not accessible in a number of ways including missing text alternatives and missing document structure.
• We plan to identify and fix these as soon as practicable

We will help content authors understand the requirements for captions and audio description for all new videos. This is related to WCAG 2.1A success criteria 1.2.2 (Captions (Prerecorded)) and 1.2.3 Audio Description or Media Alternative (Prerecorded).

To report any problems or request documents in an alternative format please contact us  We aim improve accessibility by identifying and fixijng issues to a set of timescales which we will publish here.

This website was last tested on *****.   This statement was prepared on 18 July 2020.