Accessibility Statement

Accessibility Statement for Sourton Parish Council website This accessibility statement applies to the Sourton Parish Council website.

This website is run by Sourton Parish Council. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. We’ve also made the website text as simple as possible to understand.

How accessible this website is We know some parts of this website may not be fully accessible: some PDF documents may not be fully accessible to screen reader software

This site is available in three versions which duplicate all textual information:

• large screen/desktop site, includes graphics and photos. Some pages may require horizontal scrolling at high zoom.
• small screen/mobile site, formatted to display on small screens in portrait or landscape format
• text only site, no graphics, photos or text formatting. Text font, size and background contrast may be adjusted by means of user browser controls

Feedback and contact information

If you need information on this website in a different format please contact the Parish Clerk

• by email: parishclerk@sourtonpc.org.uk
• by phone: 07792958675
• by post: Coombe Farm, Lake, Sourton, Okehampton EX20 4HQ

We will consider your request and get back to you as soon as possible.

Reporting accessibility problems with this website We seek to maintain and improve the accessibility of this website. If you find any problems or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, please contact the Parish Clerk – contact details above.

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

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

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations Some PDF documents, especially those containing graphics and images, may not be fully accessible to screen readers

PDFs and other documents Some of our PDFs 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 we publish will meet accessibility standards where possible, except where these are supplied by other organisations over which we have no control.

Preparation of this accessibility statement This statement was prepared on 1st April 2024

All pages on the public facing web site, excluding PDF documents, were tested using the WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool and manual inspection.