Website Accessibility - Tips
Overview
Parish Online has set your website up to meet the latest accessibility guidelines. However, how you add content will affect the accessibility of your website. Here's some things to bear in mind.
Tips
Use sentence case in everything you put on the website. The use of block capitals for emphasis makes it much harder to read your website using a screen reader.
Posters containing words and images are not great for accessibility unless they are saved as PDF's. It's much better to put the information in as text and images within the page itself. You can still attach your poster as well.
Images containing words are not accessible and should not be used. Instead, the details of the meeting should be in the body of the page.
You should save a document as a PDF rather than print it to make it more accessible. You can check your documents for accessibility when saving as PDF from Word (if you're using word).
Meetings: we'd always recommend that you put the agenda and minutes in the body text of the page not just add these as attachments.
Finances: whilst many of the documents will be difficult to make accessible, the file names of the attachments should be in sentence case and should be descriptive for someone using a screen reader. It would be helpful to explain in the body of the page what documents you have attached and what each contains.
Governance and Policies: make sure to include accessible PDF's wherever possible and to include the body of the document in the main page body wherever possible.