Executive summary
What we found, and the option we've prepared
Cotswold District Council wants to reduce its reliance on PDFs, but staff continue to favour the format and the website contains a substantial historic estate. Beth is balancing document checks and corrections with reviewing older content, leaving less time for wider website improvements.
What matters is giving residents an easier way to access information while reducing the manual effort required from a small team. Beth highlighted that some content currently presented as PDFs would be better suited to a webpage, but converting that content individually would create another significant task.
Combining new-document remediation with PDF Intercept would support both priorities. Remediation would improve new PDFs as they are published, while Intercept would provide HTML versions of documents across the agreed website scope without requiring each one to be manually rebuilt as a webpage.
This offers a practical way to improve access across the existing estate alongside ongoing remediation. Historic source PDFs would remain unremediated under this option, so any requirement to improve those files would remain part of the Council's wider plan.
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.
Prices exclude VAT and are based on the estate figures we've agreed with you. Remediation volumes are reviewed with your customer success manager at renewal.
Recite Me · Proposal RM-20261104-CDC v1