Accessibility statement for Higher Walton CE Primary School

This accessibility statement applies to www.walton.lancs.sch.uk.

This website is run by Higher Walton CE Primary School. We want as many people as possible to be able to use it. For example, that means you should be able to:

  • change colours, contrast levels and fonts using browser or device settings
  • zoom in up to 400% 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

We have also tried to make 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 have not yet carried out a formal accessibility test of this website, so we are not able to say how accessible it is. We are arranging a review. In the meantime, if you have any difficulty using this website, please contact us using the details below and we will help.

Feedback and contact information

If you need information on this website in a different format, such as accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille, please contact us:

  •  email bursar@walton.lancs.sch.uk
  •  telephone 01772 335945

We will consider your request and get back to you within 5 working days.

Reporting accessibility problems with this website

We are always looking to improve the accessibility of this website. If you find any problems that are not listed on this page, or you think we are not meeting the requirements of the accessibility regulations, please contact us by email at bursar@walton.lancs.sch.uk or by telephone on 01772 335945.

Enforcement procedure

The Equality and Human Rights Commission is responsible for enforcing the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018, the accessibility regulations. If you are not happy with how we respond to your complaint, contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service.

Technical information about this website's accessibility

Higher Walton CE Primary School is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the accessibility regulations.

Schools are partially exempt from the accessibility regulations. Regulation 4 exempts the websites of schools except for content relating to essential online administrative functions, meaning the content a person needs in order to use a service, for example an online form. We have chosen to apply the standard to this website as a whole rather than only to that content.

Compliance status

We are not able to state a compliance status for this website, because it has not yet been tested against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.2 AA standard. We will update this statement as soon as that assessment has been carried out.

Non-accessible content

The content listed below is non-accessible for the following reasons.

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations

  • Some images do not have a text alternative, so the information in them is not available to people using a screen reader. This fails WCAG 2.2 success criterion 1.1.1, non-text content.
  • Some information is presented as text inside an image, which cannot be read by a screen reader or resized cleanly. This fails WCAG 2.2 success criterion 1.4.5, images of text.

What we are doing to improve accessibility

We are arranging an accessibility review of this website. Once it is complete we will publish what it found here, along with a plan and dates for putting things right.

Preparation of this statement

This statement was prepared on 18 September 2026. This website has not yet been tested for accessibility.