Accessibility Statement for

Barsham & Shipmeadow Parish Council

This website is run by Barsham & Shipmeadow 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:

  • Navigate most of the website using just a keyboard
  • Navigate most of the website using speech recognition software
  • isten to most of the website using a screen reader (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)

How accessible this website is

We know some parts of this website may not be fully accessible:

  • We can’t guarantee the full accessibility of our PDF documents or Word documents to screen reader software
  • We can’t guarantee the full accessibility of documents provided to the Parish Council by outside bodies to screen reader software

What to do if you cannot access parts of this website

If you need information from this website and are unable to access it please email the clerk:

We’ll consider your request and get back to you within 10 days.

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: The Parish Clerk at Barsham & Shipmeadow 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).

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

Barsham & Shipmeadow Parish Council is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

This website is fully compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard.

How we tested this website

This website was last tested on 19/02/2021. The test was carried out by the Parish Council using the Wave Accessibility software.

We tested:

  • Our main website platform.

What we’re doing to improve accessibility

We are constantly looking at our website accessibility alongside our website developers and where we can improve on it we will. We follow a specific set of guidelines to ensure all our content meets the WCAG 2.1 Standard.

This statement was prepared on 10/08/2020. It was last updated on 19/02/2021.