Website Accessibility Statement
Lighthouse Accessibility Score: 100%
This website achieved a perfect score of 100% in a Google Lighthouse automated accessibility audit. However, automated tools cannot detect all accessibility issues. The known issues documented in this statement relate to image text alternatives and PDF document accessibility, which require human review to identify and remediate fully.
Accessibility Statement for Bournville School Website
This accessibility statement applies to the website for Bournville School, available at www.bournvilleschool.org.
This website is run by Bournville School, a member of the Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust.
We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:
- change colours, contrast levels and fonts
- zoom in up to 300% 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 (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)
We’ve also made 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 know some parts of this website are not fully accessible:
- some images on the website contain text (such as award logos, accreditation badges and banners) where that text may not be fully described in the image’s alternative text
- many of our PDF documents — including policy documents, letters home and statutory information — are not fully accessible to screen reader software
- some older PDF documents were published before accessibility standards were widely adopted and have not yet been reviewed
Feedback and contact information
If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille, please email: post@bournville.fmat.co.uk, marking your request for the attention of Ms A. Papadopoulos, Administration Manager.
We’ll consider your request and get back to you in 21 days.
Reporting accessibility problems with this website
We’re always looking to improve the accessibility of this website. If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, please email post@bournville.fmat.co.uk. The Communications and Administration team will then review your concern and get back to you within 21 days.
Enforcement procedure
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is responsible for enforcing the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018 (the ‘accessibility regulations’). If you’re not happy with how we respond to your complaint, contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS).
Contacting us by phone or visiting us in person
You can contact us by:
- Phone: 0121 475 3881
- Email: post@bournville.fmat.co.uk
- Post: Bournville School, Hay Green Lane, Birmingham, West Midlands, B30 1SH
- Contact form: bournvilleschool.org/contact-us
Technical information about this website's accessibility
Bournville School is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.
Compliance status
This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard, due to the non-compliances and exemptions listed below.
Why 'partially compliant' despite a Lighthouse score of 100%?
Lighthouse automated testing cannot detect issues that require human judgement — such as whether an image’s alt text accurately describes text within that image, or whether a PDF document is properly structured for screen readers. The two known issues in this statement fall into exactly these categories. Once they have been fully remediated through a manual audit and PDF review, this status can be updated to ‘fully compliant’.
Non-accessible content
The content listed below is non-accessible for the following reasons.
Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations
Images containing text
The website includes a number of images that contain text — including award logos, accreditation badges (such as the School Games Gold Mark, Artsmark, LPPA, Eco-Schools and Rights Respecting Schools awards), banners and promotional tiles. In some cases, the alternative text for these images may not fully convey the text visible within the image to users of screen readers.
This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.1.1 (Non-text Content) and may also affect WCAG 1.4.5 (Images of Text).
We plan to audit all images containing text across the website and update their alternative text descriptions by March 2027. When we publish new content, we will endeavour that images containing text have complete and accurate alternative text descriptions.
PDF documents
The website contains a large number of PDF documents including school policies, letters home, statutory information, staff contact lists, curriculum documents, and exam-related information. Many of these PDFs are not structured in a way that makes them fully accessible to screen reader software.
Specifically:
- PDF documents may lack a document title that describes their topic or purpose — this fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 2.4.2 (Page Titled)
- PDF documents may not have a logical reading order or tagged structure — this fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.3.1 (Info and Relationships) and 1.3.2 (Meaningful Sequence)
- PDF documents may not have a defined document language — this fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 3.1.1 (Language of Page)
- form fields within PDF documents may not be properly labelled — this fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 4.1.2 (Name, Role, Value)
- some scanned PDFs may contain no machine-readable text at all, relying solely on an image of the document
We plan to carry out a full audit of all PDF documents on the website. Our approach will be:
- New PDFs: all new PDF documents published from the date of this statement will be created to meet WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standards, including correct tagging, document titles, reading order and language settings
- Essential existing PDFs: PDF documents that are essential to providing our services — including admissions information, safeguarding policies and SEND documentation — will be reviewed and either remediated or replaced with accessible HTML pages by March 2027
- Non-essential existing PDFs: older PDF documents that are not essential to providing our services will be reviewed on an ongoing basis
Disproportionate burden
We are not currently claiming that any accessibility problems would be a disproportionate burden to fix.
Content that's not within the scope of the accessibility regulations
PDFs and other documents published before 23 September 2018
The accessibility regulations do not require us to fix PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018 if they’re not essential to providing our services. Some older policy and archive documents on the website may fall into this category. Any such documents that are identified as essential to our services will be fixed or replaced.
Any new PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards.
Third-party content
The website includes embedded third-party content and services including a school calendar, the ParentPay payment system, and social media feeds from Facebook, Instagram and X (Twitter). This content is not under our direct control. We will work with our providers where possible to improve accessibility.
What we're doing to improve accessibility
We plan to continually improve the accessibility of this website. As well as periodical accessibility testing, our website editors will continue to be trained to publish content with accessibility regulations in mind.
This website is managed through a Content Management System with multiple editors who publish new content on a daily basis. As a result, the accessibility status of individual pages may fluctuate over time. We are committed to training all editors in accessible content practices and carry out regular audits to identify and address any new issues as they arise.
We have already taken the following steps:
- the website achieved a 100% score in a Google Lighthouse automated accessibility audit
- the website includes a skip-to-content link at the top of every page to help keyboard and screen reader users
Our immediate priorities are to complete the image alt text audit and begin the PDF remediation programme described above.
Preparation of this accessibility statement
This statement was first prepared on 11 March 2026. It was last reviewed and revised on 11 March 2026.
This website was last tested in March 2026. An automated accessibility audit was carried out using Google Lighthouse in Google Chrome, which returned a score of 100%. Manual testing of specific content types — including images containing text and PDF documents — is ongoing.
Our approach to deciding on a sample of pages to test was to check all publicly published pages on this website.
We plan to carry out further testing on a regular basis, including manual testing and testing with assistive technology users.
Bournville All-Through School
Hay Green Lane, Birmingham, West Midlands, B30 1SH
0121 475 3881 | post@bournville.fmat.co.uk | www.bournvilleschool.org
Company Registered Number: 07661164 | Part of the Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust
Further guidance: GOV.UK — Accessibility requirements for public sector websites and apps | WCAG 2.1 Quick Reference