B.T.B.C. Accessibility Statement
(Last Review Date: 1st January 2024 Next Review Date: 1st January 2025).
This accessibility statement applies to the Biggleswade Town Bowls Club website.
This website is run by Biggleswade Town Bowls Club. 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 150% without the text spilling off the screen
navigate most of the website using just a keyboard
navigate your way through the website using the ‘Search Tool’
navigate your way through the website using the Sitemap page
skip the repeated content in the page header (for example, a ‘skip to main content’ option).
AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability.
We know some parts of this website are not fully accessible:
the text will not reflow in a single column when you change the size of the browser window
you cannot modify the line height or spacing of text
live video streams do not have captions
some of our online forms are difficult to navigate using just a keyboard
you cannot skip to the main content when using a screen reader
there’s a limit to how far you can magnify the map on our ‘location’ page
Feedback and contact information
If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible
PDF, large print, or easy read:
We’ll consider your request and get back to you as soon as we possibly can. Please note that this email account is not monitored constantly so any reply may be delayed. Thank you for your understanding.
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: biggleswadebowls@gmail.com.
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
Biggleswade Town Bowls Club 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 ‘Success Criterion 1.2.4 Captions (Live) listed below.
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). We plan to add text alternatives for all images soon. When we publish new content we’ll make sure our use of images meets accessibility standards.
Navigation and accessing information
It’s not always possible to change the device orientation from horizontal to vertical without making it more difficult to view the content.
It’s not possible for users to change text size without some of the content overlapping.
Interactive tools and transactions
Some of our interactive forms are difficult to navigate using a keyboard.
Our forms are built and hosted through third party software and ‘skinned’ to look like our website.
PDFs and other documents
Some of our PDFs and Word documents are essential to providing our services. For example, we have PDFs with information on how users can access our services, and forms published as Word 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.
Any new PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards.
Live video
We do not plan to add captions to live video streams because live video is exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations.
Preparation of this accessibility statement
This statement was prepared on Thursday 10th March 2022. It was last reviewed on Friday 1st April 2022.
This website was last tested on Friday 1st April 2022. The test was carried out by us (Biggleswade Town Bowls Club).
We used this approach to deciding on a sample of pages to test.
Our principal place of business is at:
Biggleswade Town Bowls Club
Glebe Road
Biggleswade
Bedfordshire
SG18 0PE
You can also contact us:
A) by email (Biggleswadebowls@gmail.com)