Accessibility Statement

Overview

This website is built Visual Works and maintained by the Shropshire Hills AONB Partnership. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:

  • change colours, contrast levels and fonts
  • zoom in up to 300% without the text spilling off the screen
  • navigate most of the website using just a keyboard
  • navigate most of the website using speech recognition software
  • listen to most of the website using a screen reader (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)

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:

  • older PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software
  • mega menu navigation not fully accessible to all screen reader software

 

What to do if you cannot access parts of this website

Please contact us to directly to request information in alternative formats by emailing shropshirehillsaonb@shropshire.gov.uk

 

Reporting accessibility issues 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, please email shropshirehillsaonb@shropshire.gov.uk

 

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).

 

Contacting us by phone or visiting us in person

If you do need to visit or ring, please telephone 01743 254740 to speak to us or to make an appointment to meet.

 

Technical information about this website's accessibility

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

Mega menu navigation not accessible to all screen readers – we are developing an alternative with Visual Works.

 

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

PDFs and other documents

Older PDFs 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).  We are working to replace where possible with accessible HTML pages.