Accessibility Statement

we are Committed to Digital Accessibility

Inclusivity is our top priority. Medway Council is committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. We strive to provide an optimised digital experience for all users who come to our website, regardless of individual ability or assistive technology used to access it.

Conformance Status

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) provides 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. This website is partially conformant with WCAG 2.1 level AA. “Partially conformant” means that some parts of the content do not fully conform to the accessibility standard.

 

Ongoing Efforts to Ensure Accessible Content

We continually test content and features for WCAG 2.2 Level AA compliance and remediate any issues to ensure we meet or exceed the standards. Testing of our digital content is performed by CPWA (Certified Professional in Web Accessibility) expert using Deque-developed automated testing software (based on the axe® rules library), screen readers, a color contrast analyzer, keyboard-only navigation techniques, and a variety of bookmarklets.

 

Summary of Accessibility Features

  • All images and other non-text elements have alternative text associated with them.

  • Navigational aids are provided on all pages. Skip navigation links have been incorporated to facilitate keyboard navigation and to bypass groups of links on a page and jump directly to the main content.

  • The videos embedded on the site have open captions.

  • Structural markup to indicate headings and lists has been provided to aid in page comprehension.

  • Forms are associated with labels and instructions on filling in forms are available to screen reader users.

 

Non-Accessible Content

Some parts of this website are not fully accessible.

  • (Temporary) Using a keyboard with a zoomed browser, the primary navigation menu collapses before reaching the search button. Workaround: press Enter in the text field to search.

  • (Temporary) The YouTube video player has accessibility issues in some functions, such as color contrast. Our videos are also available on Youtube.com, an external website which

  • (Temporary) Medway does not control. See the YouTube Accessibility policy for more information.

  • (Temporary) Some images in article content have a text alternative which partially describes the image.

 

Feedback and Contact Information

We welcome your feedback. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers on this website using the form below.