Accessibility Statement

Conformance status

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA. Our Website is partially conformant with WCAG 2.1 level AA. Partially conformant means that some parts of the content do not fully conform to the accessibility standard.

Accessibility Roadmap

Our website is designed with accessibility by design and as a key priority, following best practices in an effort to provide an inclusive and user-friendly experience for all visitors. We recognise however that continuous improvements may further improve our website’s accessibility. Similarly, new technologies may become available which we can leverage and implement to provide ever better accessibility.
Our accessibility roadmap will focus on identify and implementing high-impact actions or changes to create an inclusive and user-friendly experience for all visitors.

Current key priorities include:

  • Adding meaningful alternative text for all images to provide context for screen reader users.

  • Provision of training to our website editorial staff by our website provider on accessibility best practices.

  • Testing keyboard navigation and identifying any limitations so that all interactive elements can be accessed without a mouse.

  • Identifying and implementing an accessibility tool which allows users to tweak accessibility features to their preferences.

By focusing on these core areas first, we can deliver immediate improvements while establishing a strong foundation for future accessibility enhancements.

Feedback

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of our website. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers on our website:

Technical specifications

Accessibility of our website relies on the following technologies to work with the particular combination of web browser and any assistive technologies or plugins installed on your computer:

  • HTML

  • CSS

  • JavaScript

These technologies are relied upon for conformance with the accessibility standards used.

Limitations and alternatives

Despite our best efforts to ensure accessibility of our website, there may be some limitations. Below is a description of known limitations, and potential solutions.
Please contact us if you observe an issue not listed below.

Known limitations for our website:

  1. Image Galleries: Uploaded images may not have text alternatives because . We are looking to identify options to create text alternatives to images within a gallery.

  2. Images: Not all images have alternative text yet to provide context for screen reader users. We are working on this at the moment.

Assessment approach

Palmerstown Community School assessed the accessibility of our website by the following approaches:

  • Self-evaluation

  • External evaluation

Date

This statement was created on 25 August 2025.