Disclaimer & Accessibility

The objective of this website is to supply factual information that visitors may wish to read without offending anyone in the process.

If you have a valid reason why you consider that an item, words, or pictures, should be removed from this website please contact the webmaster immediately!

Whilst the webmaster makes every attempt to ensure the accuracy of the contents of this website there may still be errors or links that fail to operate, therefore, if you discover an error please notify the webmaster as soon as possible.

E-mail:  clerk@fsmsg-pc.gov.uk

 

Accessibility Statement for Fornham St Martin cum St Genevieve Parish Council Website

 

This website is run by Fornham St Martin cum St Genevieve Parish Council and we want as many people to use this website as possible. We have also made the website text as easy as possible to understand. We know that some parts of this website are not fully accessible. See below for details of these and our full Accessibility Statement;

Accessibility Statement

Accessibility Statement for Fornham St Martin cum St Genevieve Parish Council

FSMSG Parish Council is committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. We are continually improving the user experience for everyone, and applying the relevant accessibility standards.

Measures to support accessibility
FSMSG Parish Council takes the following measures to ensure accessibility of the FSMSG Parish Council website:

  • Regular reviews of the website are undertaken

TECHNICAL INFORMATION ABOUT THIS WEBSITE ACCESSIBILITY

Conformance status
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA. FSMSG Parish Council is partially conformant with WCAG 2.1 level AA.Partially conformant means that some parts of the content do not fully conform to the accessibility standard.

Feedback
We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of FSMSG Parish Council’s website. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers on the FSMSG Parish Council website:

Compatibility with browsers and assistive technology
The FSMSG Parish Council website is designed to be compatible with the following assistive technologies:

  • Mobile Phones
  • PC and Mac Computers
  • All Tablet devices
  • All known Browsers
  • Screen Readers

Technical specifications
Accessibility of the FSMSG Parish Council website relies on the following technologies to work with the particular combination of web browser and any assistive technologies or plugins installed on your computer:

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript

These technologies are relied upon for conformance with the accessibility standards used and we cannot guarantee that the site will work fully on older versions of assistive technology.

NON ACCESSIBLE CONTENT

Limitations and alternatives

Despite our best efforts to ensure accessibility ofthe FSMSG Parish Council website, there may be some limitations. Below is a description of known limitations, and potential solutions. Please contact us if you observe an issue not listed below.

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations

Known limitations for the FSMSG Parish Council website:

Uploaded images may not have text alternatives because we cannot ensure the quality of contributions.

Some older PDFs may not comply.

Some externally supplied, interactive PDFs may not be fully complaint. We have no control of these documents.

You cannot alter the height or line space

We cannot guarantee full access to PDF or Word documents to screen reader software.

 

Disproportionate burden

At this present time, we have not identified any specific issues that would be of disproportionate burden.

Content not within the Scope of the accessibility regulations

The following is exempt from the Accessibility regulations

  • pre-recorded audio and video published before 23 September 2020
  • live audio and video
  • heritage collections like scanned manuscripts
  • PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018 – unless needed to use a service.
  • maps –information maybe available in address format
  • third party content  under someone else’s control
  • content on intranets or extranets published before 23 September 2019
  • archived websites if  not needed for services and they are not updated

Assessment Approach

FSMSG Parish Council assessed the accessibility of the website by the following approaches:

  • Self-evaluation

Formal approval of this accessibility statement

This Accessibility Statement is approved by

Fornham St Martin cum St Genevieve Parish Council

Enforcement procedure– The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is responsible for enforcing the Public Sector Bodies (websites and Mobile Applications) (No2) Accessibility Regulations 2018 (the ‘accessibility regulations’). If you are not happy with how we respond to your complaint, contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS)