Check your council’s website
We’ll go through your current website the way a resident would, and the way the internal auditor would, and send you a plain-English scorecard: what works, what doesn’t, and what to fix first. Something to take to the next meeting.
What you’ll get
- Can a resident with a screen reader read your latest minutes and agenda? Can one on a phone?
- Is the next meeting, the latest minutes and the clerk’s contact findable from the home page?
- Transparency Code: what’s published, what’s missing and what’s overdue
- The three quickest fixes, which you can do with your current supplier
If it’s all green, we’ll tell you that too. Whoever your supplier is.
What we check
Meeting papers
Are minutes and agendas readable by a screen reader and on a phone, or are they PDFs saved from Word with no structure? This is where most council sites fail residents.
Finding things
The next meeting, the latest minutes, the clerk’s contact details and planning: are they on the home page, or four clicks away under “Documents”?
The basics of WCAG 2.2 AA
Headings, contrast, keyboard use, zoom, link text, form labels and the accessibility statement itself.
The Transparency Code list
Agendas and minutes, items over £100, accounts and the annual return, the audit report, councillors, assets and notices.