Accessibility Statement for Lyme Regis Town Council website (www.lymeregistowncouncil.gov.uk

Lyme Regis Town Council is committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. We are continually improving the user experience for everyone and applying the relevant accessibility standards.

AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability.

Conformance status

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA. 

Lyme Regis Town Council’s website is partially conformant with WCAG 2.2 level AA. Partially conformant means that some parts of the content do not fully conform to the accessibility standard.

Accessibility of this website

We know there are some parts of this website which aren’t fully accessible:

  • PDF documents are not accessible to screen reader software

  • Not all images have an alt text attribute

  • Sections of the website which include iframes are not accessible

  • Images which contain text are not accessible 

What we are doing to improve accessibility

  • We are converting PDFs to HTML where possible

  • We are using less text in images

  • We are ensuring all images have an alt text attribute going forward 

Feedback

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of Lyme Regis Town Council’s website. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers on Lyme Regis Town Council’s website:

We try to respond to feedback within five business days.