Accessibility Statement

Accessibility statement for Seascale Parish Council

We are constantly working to make our website as accessible and usable as possible.

We check our website consistently using WAVE to ensure the best accessibility score.

AbilityNet provides guidance about how to:

Code

Our website has been developed to best practice coding conventions following Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 (WCAG 2.2).

Consistent page heading and titles

A consistent heading structure has been used so that page information is compatible with access technology.

Browsers

  • Google Chrome – latest version
  • Firefox (Windows and Mac) – latest version
  • Microsoft Edge (Windows) – latest version
  • Safari (Mac) – latest version

Alternative formats

Areas that may not be accessible

Document downloads

Some documents on this website are available in the following formats:

  • Microsoft Word
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Adobe PDF

Where possible we are working to provide accessible alternatives to these formats. See the section below regarding PDF documents.

Google Captcha

Due to how Google Captcha works in providing responses on a form using hidden text fields, contact forms may not be fully compliant.

Every effort has been made to ensure those with assistive technologies can use contact forms as normal and that it does not affect the majority of users.

Cookie Policy

Due to the format in which the cookie policy is served to end users, some aspects of the policy are not fully compliant, as listed below:

  • Some subheadings are missing their respective heading tags despite being styled as headings.
  • Some links are not fully descriptive of their destinations (i.e. Read More).

We are investigating this page to address these issues, however due to a third-party system powering this policy we do not have an estimated time of completion.

PDF documents

A significant number of documents on this website are currently available in PDF format only and do not meet current accessibility requirements. These include scanned images of printed documents and text-based PDFs containing embedded images — neither of which can be reliably read by screen readers and other assistive technologies.

We are aware of this issue and are committed to improving access to our document archive. Work to convert these documents into accessible HTML versions has been commissioned and is ongoing, with full completion expected by late July to early August 2026. Converted documents are published to the website as they become available, and accessible versions can be viewed directly on the relevant pages of this site.

If you require the content of a specific document in an accessible format before it has been converted, please contact the Parish Clerk and we will do our best to provide it in a suitable format within a reasonable timeframe.

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