• Call the Parish Council on 01793 312006
• Via our website contact form: www.southswindon-pc.gov.uk/contact-us

Compliance Status:

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2.1 AA standard due to the non-compliances listed below:

• Older PDF files such as Meeting Minutes and Agendas published before 23rd September 2018.
• Scanned documents posted on the website such as the Annual Governance and Accountability Return.
• Videos.
• Parish Council content stored and produced by third parties or using third party software.

Disproportionate Burden

Nothing is cited as being a disproportionate burden.

Content that's not within the scope of the accessibility regulations:

PDF and Other Documents

Many of our older PDF documents do not meet accessibility standards – for example, they may not be structured so they’re accessible to a screen reader. The accessibility regulations do not require the Parish Council to fix PDFs or other documents published before 23rd September 2018 so long as they’re not essential to providing our services.

The Parish Council is required, by law, to upload a number of new documents that have been approved and signed. This is done by scanning the document and uploading as a PDF file type. The nature of a scanned document is not accessible and often Optical Character Recognition (OCR) conversion of the document is not perfect.

What we're doing to improve accessibility:

We will be running regular accessibility checks and ensure that new content added to the website meets accessibility requirements where possible.

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was agreed by the Parish Council on 24.05.2022

An accessibility test will be carried out annually by Central Swindon South Parish Council (self-evaluation) using the Government accessibility checklist and the Wave Accessibility Evaluation Tool.