Our website is the Parish Council’s main way of meeting our statutory obligations of providing information on our activities to the public. Over the past eighteen months we have been extending the site to cover all aspects of our business. We now need to ensure that the website is fully accessible i.e. making sure it can be used by as many people as possible, and for this we would like your help.
Accessibility includes people with:
- impaired vision,
- motor difficulties,
- cognitive impairments or learning disabilities,
- deafness or impaired hearing.
Accessibility means more than just putting things online. It means making our content and design clear and simple enough so that most people can use it without needing to adapt it, while supporting those who do need to adapt things. For example, someone with impaired vision might use a screen reader (software that lets a user navigate a website and ‘read out’ the content), braille display or screen magnifier. Or someone with motor difficulties might use a special mouse, speech recognition software or on-screen keyboard emulator.
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