CDALC

Delivering support to local councils in County Durham

Aycliffe Nature Park

Aycliffe Nature Park

Near Traveller’s Green in Newton Aycliffe, this area houses several rare species. There is a pond, dipping platform and info about flora and fauna.

Town hall

Ferryhill Town Hall

Ferryhill Town Hall Headquarters of Ferryhill Town Council

Great Aycliffe Show

Great Aycliffe Show

Organized by Great Aycliffe Town Council this event has crafts, horticulture, competitions, trade stands, demonstrations, funfair and refreshments.

Great Aycliffe Show

Great Aycliffe Show

Great Aycliffe Town Council provides a superb family-friendly event during August Bank Holiday weekend, with free public entry for two days of fun.

Adult fitness trail

Adult Fitness Trail

Shildon Town Council is encouraging its adult population to get as fit as its children by installing adult fitness equipment in its park.

Town Park

Town Park

Located near to the centre of Newton Aycliffe, the Town Park features planted areas, play equipment, a skateboard area and a youth shelter.

Oakleaf Bowls

Oakleaf Sports Complex

Open 7 days a week to provide classes, coaching and wide range of facilities including football, squash, badminton, cricket and indoor bowling.

Councillors

Local Councils Charter

Local Councils and Durham County Council members at the official signing of the Local Councils Charter event.

Refurbished Play Area

Refurbished Park - Shildon

Shildon Town Council's Hackworth Park and it's newly refurbished play equipment

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Accessibility

We want everyone who visits our website to be able to access the full range of services available, regardless of their skill or technology.

The current version of this website was launched in 2016, but some individual elements of it may not have been updated since then.

How accessible the site is

We know some parts of this website aren’t fully accessible. We have an action plan and are working to put this right.

What to do if you have problems or queries

If you need to contact us about any issues, please use our contact us page.

The County Durham Association of Local Councils (CDALC) is responsible for enforcing the accessibility regulations. If you’re not happy with how we respond, please contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS).

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

CDALC is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with The Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

Under the Equality Act 2010 we must ensure we do not unlawfully discriminate in our service delivery and make reasonable adjustments for people with disabilities where necessary. We are constantly working to improve the accessibility and usability of our site.

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard, due to the non-compliances listed below.

Non compliance with the accessibility regulations

  • document titles: some documents contain placeholder text like ‘Untitled’ or the page filename, failing success criterion 2.4.2
  • document titles: some documents have no title failing success criterion 2.4.2
  • background colours: some text / background colours do not have enough contrast, failing success criterion 1.4.3
  • forms: some have blank labels or titles, which fails success criterion 4.1.2
  • frames and iframes: some do not have a title attribute, failing success criterion 2.4.1
  • form field labels: some are not unique or are not enclosed in a fieldset with a legend to make them unique, and fail success criterion 2.4.6
  • images: some images have image name as alt text, failing success criterion 1.1.1
  • links: links use generic link text that has no context, such as ‘click here’, failing success criterion 2.4.4
  • elements: some elements do not contain text or an img with an alt attribute, failing success criteria 2.4.4, 2.4.9 and 4.1.2
  • page language: this is not declared, failing success criterion 3.1.1
  • images in documents: some images / figures do not have an alt tag, failing success criterion 1.1.1
  • tables: heading elements are not declared and role=presentation is not used, failing success criterion 1.3.1
  • documents: PDFs are not tagged so are not accessible by screen readers, failing success criterion 1.3.1
  • page titles: pages titles are not unique, failing success criterion 2.4.2
  • outline / border style: the stylesheet makes it difficult to see the dotted link focus outline, failing success criterion 2.4.7
  • IDs: some pages has duplicate IDs which cause problems in screen readers, failing success criterion 4.1.1

Accessibility Roadmap

As stated in the non-compliance section, the known issues are listed below:

  • HTML – the underlying code used to create this website.
  • CSS – used to describe how HTML elements are displayed on this website.
  • JavaScript – a development language used to program behaviours on this website.
  • 3rd Party Functionality
  • Content – this could include web page content or associated PDFs on this website.

A program of work is now underway to address these issues and involves working with Durham County Council’s in-house developers/designers as well as third party functionality providers.
We aim to resolve the above items by September 2021.

Content that’s not within the scope of the accessibility regulations

  • PDFs/documents (pre September 2018):</strong PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018 or documents that are not essential to providing our services.
  • pre-recorded audio and video published before 23 September 2020
  • live audio and video
  • interactive maps unless they provide core information
  • content that’s under someone else’s control that we haven’t paid for or developed how we test the site

How we test the site

We re-assess a website or system for accessibility whenever it undergoes a major modification.

Most page content is checked every time it is updated.