Website Accessibility Statement

Accessibility statement for Sherfield on Loddon Parish Council website

This accessibility statement applies to the website www.sherfieldonloddon-pc.gov.uk

This website is run by Sherfield on Loddon Parish Council We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:

  • change font sizes
  • zoom in up to 300% without the text spilling off the screen
  • listen to most of the website using a screen reader
  • navigate most of the website content using just a keyboard
  • navigate most of the website using speech recognition software

 

We’ve also made the website text as simple as possible to understand.

AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability.

 How accessible this website is

We know some parts of this website are not fully accessible:

  • you cannot modify the line height or spacing of text
  • older PDF documents may not fully accessible to screen reader software
  • you cannot skip to the main content when using a screen reader
  • there’s a limit to how far you can magnify the maps which are provided by a third party (Google)

Feedback and Contact Information

If you need information on this website in a different format

  • Email Clerk@sherfieldonloddon-pc.gov.uk
  • Call 01256 842662
  • write to us at: PO Box 6865, Basingstoke, Hants, RG24 4QZ

Reporting accessibility problems with this website

We’re always looking to improve the accessibility of this website.

If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, contact: Karen Ross, Clerk to Sherfield on Loddon Parish Council

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).

https://www.equalityadvisoryservice.com/

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

We are committed to making this website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

This website framework aims for compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.2 AA standard. Some content is partially compliant, due to the non-compliances listed below.

some pages may contain content which is not currently compliant, such as:

  • PDF files that contained scanned images of printed documents, therefore they contain no semantic markup (e.g. headings, paragraphs) – meaning text will blur when zoomed and will not wrap, requiring extensive use of horizontal and vertical scrolling controls
  • Our content imported in from Facebook triggers an error that is out of our control, but this does not affect your usage of our website
  • Some elements trigger failures because of the repeated use of links on the same word, for example, Agenda, Minutes; we believe these errors are unfair as they are always in context of a nearby date, indicating they are the relevant links associated with that date

Compliance status
This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard, due to the non-compliances listed below.

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

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations
We will do all we can to identify content that is non-compliant.

Some images may not have a text alternative especially homepage banners, so people using a screen reader cannot access the information. When we publish new content,

Some links may not be based on descriptive text beyond Click Here. These will be updated when found.

Disproportionate burden
We have not identified any areas that we believe constitute a disproportionate burden.

Content that’s not within the scope of the accessibility regulations

PDFs and other documents
Many of our older PDFs and Word documents do not meet accessibility standards – for example, they may not be structured so they’re accessible to a screen reader.

This does not meet WCAG 2.1 success criterion 4.1.2 (name, role value).

Some of our PDFs and Word documents are essential to providing our services. For example, we have PDFs with information on how users can access our services, and forms published as Word documents.

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. For example, we do not plan to fix meeting agendas or minutes for meetings which were published prior to 23 September 2018.

Any new PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards except Meeting Papers. These can be requested in a paper format.

How we tested this website
The test was conducted on 25th March 2025 by X-Net Services and internally on 18th February 2026 using the WAVE tool (https://wave.webaim.org) to analyse the Homepage and selected content pages within the website. The results confirm that the site is WCAG 2.2 compliant

What we’re doing to improve accessibility

The website’s new content is checked quarterly for any new additions that may require additional accessibility help

We provide staff support to ensure that all new content added meets accessibility criteria.

This statement was last updated on 3rd March 2026