Accessibility Statement for Ruishton and Thornfalcon Parish Council
For compliance purposes, the Website refers to the website ruishtonparish.gov.uk.
Although all reasonable efforts will be made to make all pages compliant, other pages will be treated as falling outside the scope of this document.
This website is run by Ruishton & Thornfalcon 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:
- 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.
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 is this website?
We know some parts of this website aren’t fully accessible:
- you can’t modify the line height or spacing of text
- some PDF documents aren’t fully accessible to screen reader software
What to do if you can’t access parts of this website
- Email: [email protected]
- Phone: 01460 234770
We’ll consider your request and get back to you in 15 working days.
Reporting accessibility problems with this website
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:
- Email: [email protected]
- Phone: 01460 234770
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 Us
Clerk, Mrs Heather Bryant
Post: 7 Denings Close, Chard, TA20 1LS
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 01460 234770
Technical information about this website’s accessibility
Ruishton and Thornfalcon 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 currently mostly compliant with the AA standard, due to the non-compliances listed below:
- There may be pages with read more / click here links.
- There may be some pages where there are stray end tags.
- Many of our older PDFs don’t meet accessibility standards – for example, they may not be structured so they’re accessible to a screen reader.
- Some images on the website pages may not have a text alternative, so the information on them isn’t available to people using a screen reader.
We plan to add text alternatives for all relevant images. When we publish new content, we’ll make sure our use of images meets accessibility standards.
How we tested this website
This website was tested prior to the writing of this statement. The tests were carried out by a Ruishton Parish Council member in collaboration with the website developer.
This statement was prepared January 2026.