ACCESSIBILITY STATEMENT

This website is run by Wigan Council. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website on a variety of devices. For example, that means you should be able to:

• Change colours, contrast levels and fonts
• 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

We've also made the website text as simple as possible to understand.

How accessible this website is

We know some parts of this website aren’t fully accessible:

• The Fire Within Cultural Manifesto PDF
• Embedded videos may be difficult to use with the controls

What to do if you can’t access parts of this website

If you need any information on this website in a different format, you can:

• Request information in other formats

We’ll consider your request and get back to you in 10 working days.

Reporting accessibility problems with this website

We're always looking to improve the accessibility of this website, so if you have identified any accessibility issues or if you think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements:

• Report Accessibility problems

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

Wigan Council is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with The Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.
This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard, due to the non-compliances listed below.

Non accessible content

The content listed below is non-accessible for the following reasons:

• The Fire Within Cultural Manifesto PDF

The PDF is not be structured in a way that makes it accessible to a screen reader. This doesn’t meet WCAG 2.1 success criterion 4.1.2.

However, the www.firewithin.org.uk website content is an accessible and condensed version of the Manifesto PDF. 

You can access a plain text version of the Fire Within Cultural Manifesto.

How we test this website

We do a combination of automated and manual testing.

We welcome feedback from all our users, just complete our website feedback form.

This statement was prepared on 17 October 2019. It was last updated on 17 October 2019.