Accessibility information

This accessibility statement applies to bourtononthewater-pc.gov.uk.

This website is run by Bourton-on-the-Water 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 using browser or device settings
• zoom in up to 400% without the text spilling off the screen
• navigate most of the website using a keyboard or 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.

How accessible this website is

We know some parts of this website are not fully accessible:

• most older PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software
• live video streams do not have captions
• there’s a limit to how far you can magnify the map on our ‘contact us’ page which is provided by a third party (Google)

What to do if you cannot access parts of this website

If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille:

• email [email protected]
• call 01451 820712
• write to us or visit us at: The George Moore Community Centre, Moore Road, Bourton-on-the-Water, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL54 2AZ

We’ll consider your request and get back to you in 10 working days.

If you cannot view the map on our ‘contact us’ page, call or email us for directions.

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:

Parish Clerk
Bourton-on-the-Water Parish Council
Moore Road
Bourton-on-the-Water
Cheltenham
Gloucestershire GL54 2AZ

Email: [email protected]

Tel: 01451 820712

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).

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

Bourton-on-the-Water 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

The website has been tested against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) [2.1 or 2.2] AA standard.
(b) This website is partially compliant with the [Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard or Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.2 AA standard], due to the exemptions and older documents not needing to comply with the regulations and third-party provided content.

Non-accessible content

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

• Older content that does not need to comply with the regulations
• Third party provided content that is exempt from the regulations
• Specific content that is exempt from compliance: AGAR & Declarations of interest

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations

We have not identified any non-compliant aspects of the website with the exception of the items listed above.

Disproportionate burden

The council have assessed that it would be a disproportionate burden to retrospectively fix older, non-accessible documents.

Content that’s not within the scope of the accessibility regulations

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. For example, we do not plan to fix meeting minutes from 2018 or older.

Any new PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards.

Live video
We do not plan to add captions to live video streams because live video is exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations.

What we’re doing to improve accessibility

Ongoing training of all council staff on the awareness of accessibility requirements and a regular review of the published website content.

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared in May 2024. It was last reviewed on 15th April 2021.

This website was last tested in June 2024 against the WCAG [2.1] AA standard by Aubergine 262 Ltd.

The website was tested both manually and automatically using software and testing methods to check for compliance with WCAG2.1AA and WCAG2.2AA.

The test was carried out by both the council and Aubergine, our website host. The most viewed pages were tested using automated testing tools by our website team. A further audit of the website was carried out to the WCAG 2.2 AA standard.