Hello, with the new public sector accessibility requirement law
coming into force in September I have been assessing what we need to do.
Preliminary thoughts are that PDFs published on that planning
register which come from a third party, i.e. applicant/rep/consultee,
etc. and we are just re-presenting/publishing it - we have an
exemption from responsible for the accessibility of that document.
Although there is an interesting grey line if we perform document redactions...
Documents we produce and publish on the planning register, such as
site notices, officer reports, neighbour information notes, decision
notices must be accessible. As these are usually generated from Word
templates it is those templates that need to be made accessible so
when converted to PDF they are correct. However, there are complex
interrelations between the planning software, Word and case
officers/technicians local 'Normal' templates.
Is this on anyone else's radar/already looked at this?
