Accessibility statement

To receive any of the documents on the website in a Word or pdf version where possible, please contact the Parish Clerk

Thorpe on the Hill Parish Council  

Accessibility statement

This statement applies to content published on the www.lincolnshire.gov.uk domain and therefore applies to Thorpe on the Hill website. It does not apply to content on subdomains (for example, www.jobs.lincolnshire.gov.uk).

This website is designed to be used by as many people as possible. The text should be clear and simple to understand. You should be able to:

zoom in up to 300% without problems

navigate most of the website using just a keyboard

navigate most of the website using speech recognition software

use most of the website using a screen reader (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)

Change accessibility settings

How accessible this website is

Parts of this website are not fully accessible. For example:

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

many documents are in PDF, Excel or Word format and are not accessible

How to request content in an accessible format

If you need information in a different format the Parish Council will try to help so please contact us at tothparish@gmail.com and tell us:

the web address (URL) of the content

your name and email address

the format you need 

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, contact us at tothparish@gmail.com .

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) details are on their website at  https://www.equalityadvisoryservice.com/

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

Thorpe on the Hill Parish Council is committed to making its websites accessible, as per 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 which can be found here https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/ 

Non-accessible content

The content that is not accessible will be outlined below with details of where it fails the success criteria

Content that is not within the scope of the accessibility regulations

The following content does not need to comply with the accessibility requirement until September 2020, because it was published before September 2018.

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). These are planned to identify and fix these by September 2020 by the website designer. 

Thorpe on the Hill Parish Council 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).

PDFs and other documents

Many documents are not accessible in a number of ways including missing text alternatives and missing document structure. To report any problems or request documents in an alternative format, contact us at tothparish@gmail.com 

This statement was prepared and updated on 10 December 2020.