Accessibility

The website supports text to speech and the option to change font size, colour and background colour.

The majority of the documents have headers, making the navigation of documents easy to use and to find a specific item within our PDF documents.

However, we know at the moment, that the website might not be fully accessible via navigation of the keyboard as the tabs on the various pages are not prominent. We are currently investigating this matter and this policy will be updated when this is known. However, the navigation tables on the contact pages are fully functioning and easy to use.

If you need information off the website in a different format to what we provide, please e-mail;
clerk@holymoorsideandwaltonparishcouncil.co.uk or telephone; 01246 865566

Visit Holymoorside Village Hall, Holymoor Road, Holymoor Road, Holymoorside, Chesterfield, S42 7DX. The office is usually open Monday 1-3 and Wednesday & Friday 9.15-11.15 but please phone 01246 569882 before attending to ensure the office is open.

We’ll consider your request and get back to you within five days (pending holiday leave by the Clerk).

We’re always looking to improve the accessibility of this website. If you find any problems that aren’t listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, contact the Clerk via e-mail or telephone and the matter will be discussed and investigated with the webmaster.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is responsible for enforcing the Public Sector Bodies (Website and Mobile Applications) (NO. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018 (the ‘accessibility regulations’). If you’re not happy how we respond to your complaint, contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS) (https://www.equalityadvisoryservice.com/).

We do not provide a text relay service for people who are deaf, hearing impaired or have a speech impediment. Our office does not have an audio induction loop but the upstairs part of the hall does.

Holymoorside & Walton Parish Council is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Website and Mobile Applications) (NO. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibilty Guidelines version 2.1 https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/) AA standard, due to the non-compliance listed below.

• There is no text alternative for images – so this information is not available to people using a screen reader. This doesn’t meet WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.1.1 (non-text content). We plan to further consider the images, by marking them ‘decorative’ and therefore exempt from any audio description.
• Site is navigable via use of keyboard only, however, the highlighted tabs are not prominent so not easily used. This does not meet criterion 2.1.1.: Keyboard. We are currently discussing this with the webmaster to see if this is achievable on the current website.
• Some PDF documents still don’t include section headings. This does not meet criterion 4.1.2 (name, role, value). We are putting great effort into ensuring all our documents comply with this as soon as possible.

Changes to this statement will made regularly as we strive to ensure as much accessibility as possible. Disproportionate burden will be considered in exceptional cases for the near future but may not mean forever.
Some archive documents are not available on the website but can be obtained by contacting the Clerk.

This website was tested in March 2020. The test was carried out by the webmaster (Inovix Network Solutions Ltd) and Clerk to the council (Kate Brailsford).

We used the recommended GOV.UK guidance (doing a basic accessibility check if you cannot do a detailed one) approach to deciding on a sample of pages to test; pages were chosen at random all found to be compliant on our website; www.holymoorsideandwaltonparishcouncil.co.uk