Penton Mewsey Parish Council Website Accessibility Statement
We are Penton Mewsey Parish Council of Penton Mewsey, Hampshire, and our address is: https://pentonmewsey.org.uk
The statement below applies to this website only.
We want our website to be as easy to access as possible regardless of any additional needs. This means you should be able to:
- change colours, contrast levels and fonts using browser or device settings
- zoom in up to 300% without the text spilling off the screen
- navigate most of the website using a keyboard or speech recognition software
- listen to most of the website using a screen reader (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver.
AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability.
We have checked all pages of our website in accordance with the standards described under Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.2 AA standard. This is as recommended under the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.
Compliance status
This website is partially compliant to the standard. Any non-compliances we have found are listed below
The following content is difficult to access for those with additional accessibility requirements
- Older PDF documents uploaded before PDF accessibility standards were properly defined. The documents have been uploaded as images and therefore contain no semantic markup, meaning text will blur when zoomed. It is deemed that the site is better with this data than without, but it is not possible to create an easier accessible alternative.
Statement of compliance
Almost all pages of the website score at least 8.7 when tested with the WAVE Accessibility tool. Critical pages (example the home page) score 9.7.
Future accessibility minimum standards
We are ensuring that all content uploaded to the website meets the standards above; all PDFs uploaded are zoomable and scrollable and can be accessed with a screen reader.
For additional accessibility needs assistance
Any requests or feedback on the accessibility of our content, please contact us via the website contact form, or email clerk@pentonmewsey.org.uk.
If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille, please contact us via the website contact form, or email clerk@pentonmewsey.org.uk.
We’ll consider your request and get back to you within 10 working days.
Statement preparation
This statement was prepared on 2 February 2026, following a technical audit completed the same day using various browsers and the WAVE Accessibility Evaluation Tool.