Accessibility statement for Wetherby Town Council
WETHERBY TOWN COUNCIL
How accessible is The Town Hall?
We have invested in significant improvements to our Grade II listed home to make it as accessible as possible.
This includes:
- Blue Badge Parking on site two parking bays outside town hall
- Step free access in, out and around the building
- A lift to our first floor
- A ‘Changing Place’ accessible bathroom on the ground floor
- A large accessible bathroom on the first floor – no bathroom upstairs
- A Hearing Loop in The Town Hall
- Staff with Dementia Friends training
- A ‘Quiet Space’ available during meetings
OUR WEBSITE
Accessibility statement for Wetherby Town Council
This website is run by Wetherby Town 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 (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)
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 this website is
We know some parts of this website aren’t fully accessible. Some older PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software.
What to do if you can’t access parts of this website
If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille please use our contact form. We will consider your request and get back to you asap.
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 please use our contact form.
Technical information about this website’s accessibility
This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.2 AA standard, due to the non-compliances listed below.
Non compliance with the accessibility regulations
Images supplied by outside parties that do not have a text alternative, so people using a screen reader cannot access the information. This does not compromise the WCAG 2.2 success criterion 1.1.1 (non-text content).
When we publish new content we’ll make sure our use of images meets accessibility standards.
Content that’s not within the scope of the accessibility regulations
PDFs, images and other documents. Many of older PDFs, Word documents or images may not meet accessibility standards – for example, they may not be structured so they’re accessible to a screen reader. This does not meet WCAG 2.2 success criterion 4.1.2 (name, role value).
Some of our PDFs, Word documents and images are essential to providing our services. For example, we have images supplied by outside parties promoting their events.
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 may be supplied by third parties and may not meet accessibility standards.
How we tested this website
This website was last tested on 6 March 2026. The test was carried out by Proportion Marketing Limited.
We tested:
our main website platform, available at https://wetherbytowncouncil.gov.uk/
This statement was prepared on 6 March 2026. It was last updated on 6 March 2026.
Translation Statement
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- Google Chrome should offer to translate pages automatically.
- Internet Explorer can translate pages with the Google toolbar extension.
- Edge can translate pages with an extension from the Microsoft store.
- Safari on MacOS can translate pages with an extension available on the Safari extensions website.
- Safari on iOS can translate pages with an extension from the App store.
- Firefox can translate pages with various extensions