A worked example
What a one-day council site actually looks like
The quickest way to judge this is not to read about it. It is to open a real one on your phone and try it. Here is Marnhull Parish Council, built to the full standard in a day.
Home and notices, the council, meetings and minutes, finance, contact, accessibility statement, privacy. Everything a resident or an auditor looks for, in one tidy place.
Open the real site →Try it keyboard-only. Press Tab and you will see a skip link appear, and a clear focus outline follow you through the page. Shrink the window right down and it stays readable. That is what the standard asks for, and it is the part most template sites quietly miss.
What changed
The problem, in general
- Accessibility statement missing or years out of date
- Does not work well on a phone
- Documents that a screen reader cannot read
- Often rented, so the council does not own it
- An awkward answer to Assertion 10 at audit
The one-day build
- A proper, dated WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility statement
- Works on every phone, readable at 300% zoom
- Keyboard complete, screen-reader tested
- The council owns the site and domain outright
- Assertion 10 becomes a straightforward yes
How it works, start to finish
You send me your current website address. I reply with exactly what an accessibility check finds, free. If the council wants to go ahead, I prepare the content in advance from your public information, and the new site is built and goes live in a single working day on the council's own domain. You are invoiced only once it is live and the council has approved it. Fixed price, from £650, and there is nothing monthly to pay.
See where your own site stands
Run your council's website through the free checker, the same first look I take before writing to a council.
Run the free check