This accessibility statement applies to Isle of Anglesey County Council’s website: https://www.anglesey.gov.wales and other relevant third party systems.
Isle of Anglesey County Council's website makes use of valid HTML code and CSS styles. We aim to make our site as accessible as possible for everyone and to comply with the W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) 2.2 AA. The site uses a responsive design, which changes the layout of web pages so they work well on desktop PCs, tablets and mobile phones.
This website is run by Isle of Anglesey County Council. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. 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 (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:
- Some PDF, Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software.
- We may publish documents that are intended for print and are not accessible, if the same information is available in an accessible format within the webpage that the document is attached to. An example of this would be school dinner menus, as schools may wish to print off the attachments.
- Some video streams do not have captions.
- Map Môn – our mapping site (Map Môn) does not identify the language of the page so as to help assistive technology such as screen readers to convert text into speech with correct pronunciation.
- Public rights of way map - our public rights of way mapping site does not meet WCAG2.2AA requirements.
Feedback and contact information
If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, contact digital@anglesey.gov.wales
If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille:
We’ll consider your request and get back to you in 15 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).
Technical information about this website’s accessibility
Isle of Anglesey County Council 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 2.2 AA standard.
Non-accessible content
The content listed below is non-accessible for the following reasons.
Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations:
My Anglesey Account
My Anglesey Account allows users to manage their service requests and accounts with us. This site does not meet WCAG2.2AA requirements:
- Duplicate IDs - fails the WCAG 2.2 A success criterion 4.1.1 Parsing.
- aria-label attribute cannot be used on a span with no valid role attribute - fails the WCAG2.2 A success criterion 4.1.2 Name, Role, Value.
- Required ARIA parents role not present: menu, menubar, group - fails the WCAG2.2 A success criterion 1.3.1 Info and Relationships.
- iframe title missing - fails the WCAG2.2 A success criterion 4.1.2 Name, Role, Value.
- List item parent element has a role that is not role="list" - fails the WCAG2.2 A success criterion 1.3.1 Info and Relationships.
- Element has children which are not allowed - fails the WCAG2.2 A success criterion 1.3.1 Info and Relationships.
We are working with our supplier to resolve these issues by 1 July 2025.
Some PDF, Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel documents are not fully accessible
Some PDFs do not have a title. This fails the WCAG 2.2 A success criteria 2.4.2 Page titled.
There are also other problems with PDFs, such as our Statement of Accounts document, which mean they are not accessible to screen reading software. We aim to resolve this issue by April 2026.
Please contact us to ask for documents in an alternative format.
We may publish documents that are intended for print
We may publish documents that are intended for print and are not accessible, if the same information is available in an accessible format within the webpage that the document is attached to.
An example of this would be school dinner menus, as schools may wish to print off the attachments.
Video
Some video content is missing captions, audio descriptions or and/ media alternatives.
This fails the WCAG 2.2 A success criterion 1.2.2 Captions, 1.2.3 Audio Description or Media Alternative, and the WCAG 2.2 AA success criterion 1.2.5 Audio description or Media Alternative.
We aim to fix these issues by April 2026.
Mapping
Our mapping site (Map Môn) does not identify the language of the page to help assistive technology, such as screen readers, to convert text into speech with correct pronunciation.
This fails the WCAG 2.2 A success criterion 3.1.1 Language of Page.
The mapping also fails WCAG 2.2 A success criterion 4.1.2 Name, Role, Value.
Public rights of way map
Our public rights of way mapping site does not meet WCAG2.2AA requirements:
- Button missing a text alternative - fails the WCAG 2.2 A success criterion 4.1.2 Name, Role, Value.
- Colour contrast does not meet minimum requirements - fails the WCAG 2.2 AA success criterion 1.4.3 Contrast (Minimum).
- Empty headings - fails the WCAG 2.2 AA success criterion 2.4.6 Headings and labels.
- Form field missing a label - fails the WCAG 2.2 AA success criterion 4.1.2 Name, Role, Value.
- Image button missing a text alternative - fails the WCAG 2.2 AA success criterion 4.1.2 Name, Role, Value.
- Image missing a text alternative - fails the WCAG 2.2 A success criterion 1.1.1 Non-text Content.
- Inline frame missing a text alternative - fails the WCAG 2.2 AA success criterion 4.1.2 Name, Role, Value.
- Interactive element does not meet minimum size nor spacing - fails the WCAG 2.2 AA success criterion 2.5.8 Target Size (Minimum).
- Link missing a text alternative - fails the WCAG 2.2 AA success criterion 4.1.2 Name, Role, Value.
- Links are not clearly identifiable - fails the WCAG 2.2 A success criterion 1.4.1 Use of Color.
We aim to fix these issues by April 2025.
Disproportionate burden
Not applicable. We are not claiming that any of our accessibility issues are disproportionate to fix.
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.
Pre-recorded videos published before 23 September 2020
Most of our pre-recorded videos published before 23 September 2020 do not include captions. This doesn't meet WCAG 2.1 success criteria 1.2.2 Captions (Pre-recorded). We may not add captions to these videos because pre-recorded video published before 23 September 2020 is exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations.
Some pre-recorded videos published before 23 September 2020 may require, but don't include, audio description. This doesn't meet WCAG 2.1 success criteria 1.2.5 Audio Description (Pre-recorded). We will not add audio description to these videos because pre-recorded video published before 23 September 2020 is exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations.
Any pre-recorded video content we have published after 23 September 2020 now meet accessibility standards.
Live video
Live video streams do not have captions. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.2.4 (captions - live).
We do not plan to add captions to live video streams because live video is exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations.
What we’re doing to improve accessibility
We are always looking to improve the accessibility of this website.
- It is our aim to limit the number of PDFs that we add to this website by looking to see if the content can be added to the site as a webpage or as a HTML document.
- We are working with our service areas to raise awareness of the need to meet the accessibility regulations.
- We have controls in place to make sure that all new content published on the website complies with the accessibility regulations.
- We run an automated, site-wide accessibility check every week (using our third-party partner Siteimprove) and work with service area staff to fix any issues.
- We carry out regular accessibility audit of user journeys.
- Continue to work with third party suppliers to make sure that their software is accessible.
If you find any problems that aren’t listed on this page or think we’re not meeting the requirements of the accessibility regulations, contact Digital Services, digital@anglesey.gov.wales.
Preparation of this accessibility statement
Testing includes weekly automated testing together with an expert manual compliance audit.
We tested the:
- main website platform, available at https://www.anglesey.gov.wales
- homepage on http://democracy.anglesey.gov.uk, a service based on a different technical platform but styled to look like our website.
- My Anglesey Account - service based on a different technical platform but styled to look like our website.
- mapping site - service based on a different technical platform but styled to look like our website
- recruitment site - service based on a different technical platform but styled to look like our website.
This statement was prepared on 26 September 2020. It was last reviewed on 10 January 2025.
The webpages are tested regularly by Siteimprove.com.