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Accessibility statement for Gloucestershire County Council web sites

This accessibility statement applies to Gloucestershire County Council run websites, specifically:

This website and sub-domains are run by Gloucestershire County 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 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:

  • the text on some pages may not reflow in a single column when you change the size of the browser window
  • most [older] PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software
  • some live video streams are not well captioned - we use YouTube widely which auto captions video but can sometimes produce poor results

Feedback and contact information

If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille:

Communications Team (Digital)
Shire Hall
Westgate St
Gloucester
GL1 2TG

We’ll consider your request and get back to you in 5 working days from receipt.

If you cannot view the map on our ‘contact us’ page, call or email us 01452 426234 / communications@gloucestershire.gov.uk for directions.

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, use the "Anything wrong" form at the bottom of the page giving you problems or contact: communications@gloucestershire.gov.uk (please include the page link) or call 01452 426234.

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

We provide a text relay service for people who are D/deaf, hearing impaired or have a speech impediment.

Our offices have audio induction loops, or if you contact us before your visit we can arrange a British Sign Language (BSL) interpreter.

Find out how to contact us - www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/contact-us

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

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

Compliance status

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

Non-accessible content

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

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations

  • accessibility problems
  • which of the WCAG 2.1 AA success criteria the problem fails on
  • when you plan to fix the problem

Some non-decorative images may not have a text alternative, so people using a screen reader cannot access the information. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.1.1 (non-text content).

We monitor for text alternatives on all images and add appropriate text alternatives when non compliant images are discovered.

Disproportionate burden

We have no issues that would impose a disproportionate burden to fix.

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

PDFs and other documents

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. We have either fixed these or replaced them with accessible HTML pages.

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 historical Traffic Regulation Orders.

Any new PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards.

Live video

We do not plan to add captions to live video streams because live video is exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations. We do use YouTube which auto-captions video.

What we’re doing to improve accessibility

Our accessibility roadmap shows how and when we plan to improve accessibility on this website.

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared on 14 June 2021. It was last reviewed on 4 August 2022.

This website was last tested on 14 June 2021. The test was carried out by our Communications Team.

We used this approach to deciding on a sample of pages to test.

You can read the full accessibility test report.

Further tests were carried out by the Government Digital Service on 1 August 2022.

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