Our Accessibility Roadmap shows how we plan to improve accessibility for our corporate website www.east-ayrshire.go.uk and other East Ayrshire Council websites.
Most of this work will be undertaken during 2024.
Accessibility improvements
We will work on the following improvements:
- Accessibility scanning software - use accessibility scanning tools and initiate processes to review and improve the accessibility of our corporate website and other East Ayrshire Council websites
- Accessibility statements - review all East Ayrshire Council websites and apps, prepare and publish accessibility statements
- Accessibility training - provide accessibility training to all staff, including creating an elearning course, to raise awareness and support for creating accessible online content
- Accessibility guidelines and style guide - review our current accessibility guidelines and create a new corporate style guide to ensure written content is consistent and accessible
- Inaccessible PDFs - put processes in place to ensure new and updated PDFs published on our corporate website meet the website accessibility regulations where possible
- Accessibility policy - create a corporate accessibility policy for websites and apps outlining the website accessibility regulations and the process that must be followed by services and outsourced companies