Executive summary
What we found, and the option we've prepared
Cotswold District Council faces two connected challenges: keeping new documents accessible and addressing a substantial historic backlog. The crawl identified nearly 6,000 PDFs comprising more than 134,000 pages, while the demonstration highlighted issues with tagging, tables and navigation in a sample planning document.
What matters is improving access to information residents already rely on while making future publishing sustainable. Beth highlighted particular concerns about information intended for disabled residents and planning documents that need to remain available. These existing documents require attention alongside the ongoing flow of new content.
Combining historic and new-document remediation builds on the minimum coverage by addressing both areas. It would reduce the manual effort involved in correcting retained documents while establishing a consistent process for new publications.
The historic programme can be prioritised and phased around available resources, with the final scope agreed after reviewing what should be retained, removed or archived. This gives the Council a structured way to reduce existing barriers without having to tackle the entire backlog at once.
Will Batchellor, Recite Me
Your estate
Visits a month Pages PDFs PDF pages
72,000 60,000 5,901 134,688
across 1 website across the estate documents found ≈ 16,263 new a year
Your exposure: High
Set by PSBAR 2018 and Equality Act 2010.
PSBAR 2018 Public sector websites and apps must meet set accessibility standards and publish an accessibility statement.
Equality Act 2010 A legal duty to make reasonable adjustments so disabled people are not disadvantaged, online included.
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