Accessibility statement for Amber Valley Borough Council
This accessibility statement applies to www.visitambervalley.com
This website is run by Amber Valley Borough Council. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, this means you should be able to:
- change colours and contrast levels
- zoom in 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 the website using a screen reader.
ReachDeck Toolbar
We’ve added the ReachDeck Toolbar to our site. If you struggle with reading, have a visual impairment, or prefer to read in your own language, the ReachDeck Toolbar can help. Find out more.
How accessible this website is
We know some parts of this website are not fully accessible.
- most older PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen readers. We are working on updating our PDFs to make them a consistent format and therefore more accessible, unfortunately this is a big project and we aim to have this completed in 2024/25.
- we have third party tools installed on our website which may conflict with our accessibility standards, we are in contact with these providers to hopefully work through a solution.
Feedback and contact information
If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, audio recording or braille, please contact Hannah Middleton-White on 01773 841534 or email hannah.middleton-white@ambervalley.gov.uk.
We'll consider your request and get back to you within 5 working days.
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 are not meeting accessibility requirements, please contact Hannah Middleton-White on 01773 841534 or email hannah.middleton-white@ambervalley.gov.uk. You can also report any errors using our online feedback form.
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).
Technical information about this website's accessibility
Amber Valley Borough Council is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Website 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 reasons listed below.
PDFs and other documents
Some of our PDFs documents are essential to providing our services. For example, we have PDFs with walking routes. By December 2024, we plan to either fix these or replace 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.
Any new PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards.
Interactive third party tools
We offer an interactive cookies bar which is provided by an external supplier. Unfortunately you may not be able to access all the content and functionality by using your keyboard on the pop up. However all content is available to view on our cookies page.
What we're doing to improve accessibility
Our accessibility plan below shows how and when we plan to improve accessibility on this website.
- monthly scans - we carry out a monthly accessibility scan of our website to flag any errors with new content added. We aim to fix these within a few days of the scan being carried out.
- PDF documents - this is an ongoing project for us to update the format of our documents offered on the website. We aim to have documents fully accessible by December 2024.
Preparation of this accessibility statement
This statement was prepared on 26 July 2023. It was last reviewed on 26 July 2023.
This website was last tested on 26 July 2023. The test was carried out by Amber Valley Borough Council. We carried out a scan of the entire website.