Accessibility Statement
Accessibility statement for South West Implement Petrology Group Collections website
This accessibility statement applies to https://collections.stoneaxes.org.uk/
This website contains a curated selection of South West Implement Petrology Group’s objects. Visitors can also create and share their own collections of objects.
This website is run by the South West Implement Petrology Group, part of the South Western Federation of Museums and Art Galleries. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:
- Change contrast levels, colours and fonts
- Zoom in up to 200% 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 are not fully accessible:
- Most older PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software
Feedback and contact information
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:
Email: southwestipg@gmail.com
Telephone: 01392 265356
To find out more about us visit our main website https://stoneaxes.org.uk/ or use the contact page https://collections.stoneaxes.org.uk/contact-us/
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’re not meeting accessibility requirements, contact us:
Please use the contact form on the website https://collections.stoneaxes.org.uk/contact-us/
The direct contact is Amal Khreisheh, Curator of Archaeology amal.khreisheh@swheritage.org.uk
We aim to get back to you within 15 working days.
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).
Contacting us by phone or visiting us in person
The South West Implement Petrology Group does not have offices you can visit in person.
Find out about different ways of contacting us at: https://collections.stoneaxes.org.uk/contact-us/.
Technical information about this website’s accessibility
The South West Implement Petrology Group is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites 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 non-compliances listed below.
Non-accessible content
Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations
Some images do not have a text alternative, so people using a screen reader cannot access the information. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.1.1 (non-text content).
Content that’s not within the scope of the accessibility regulations
PDFs and other documents
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. For example, we do not plan to fix The Word documents and PDFS created on 27 June 2016 in the Current and published research section of the website.
Any new PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards.
Preparation of this accessibility statement
This statement was prepared on 23 September 2020. It was last reviewed on 29 March 2021.
This website was last tested on 03 September 2020. The test was carried out by Thirty8 Digital.
We used this approach to deciding on a sample of pages to test. The most commonly used pages were tested and we ensure all types of page were tested. The selected pages were: