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Dear Askham Bryan College,

I am contacting you with regard to your website accessibility statement:
https://www.askham-bryan.ac.uk/accessibi...

In the statement you claim disproportionate burden under Part 2 Section 7 of the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No.2) Accessibility Regulations 2018: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018....

As required by Part 2 Section 7 (2) of the regulations mentioned above, you were required to conduct an assessment of impacting factors before making the disproportionate burden claim. Information on the types of evidence expected in the assessment can be found in the latest monitoring report produced by GDS: https://www.gov.uk/government/publicatio....

I have noticed that your disproportionate burden claim details issues which are already covered under the regulation exemptions.

Given that you made a claim in the accessibility statement dated 2nd November 2021, please can you provide me with all documentary evidence that meets monitoring expectations which supports your disproportionate burden claim and shows that this is a distinct claim not already covered by regulations exemptions.

If you realise that your disproportionate burden claim has been made in error I would accept the alternate response showing that your accessibility statement has been updated to move incorrectly claimed elements to the “Content thats not within scope” section of the accessibility statement. For any claims that are not covered by exemptions I would obviously like the above documentation as mentioned.

Kind regards,
Chris

Jethro Powell, Askham Bryan College

Dear Chris,

Thank you for your email which has been forwarded to me to respond to.

I acknowledge receipt of your Freedom of Information Request below and will aim to process the request within the statutory timescale of 20 working days. I calculate the 20 working days to expire 5th October 2022.

I will come back to you, however, as soon as I can, once I have looked into your request further.

Yours sincerely,

Jethro

Jethro Powell
Legal and Compliance Adviser | Corporation
Askham Bryan College, York | Askham Bryan | York | YO23 3FR
T: +44 (0) 1904 772277 | F: +44 (0) 1904 772288 | E: [email address] | www.askham-bryan.ac.uk

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Jethro Powell, Askham Bryan College

Dear Chris,

I write further to my email below.

In answer to your query, please note we have now amended the sections in question on the website and we are working on making post 2018 content more accessible.

With regards to your request for documentation, we raised this with the website developers whose response was:

The only claim that we can see in the statement is about the PDF's - it might be best to go back to Chris Malry and ask for clarification on that part. If there are no other claims then would assume there’s no need to provide any documentation.

I trust that answers your query.

However, if you are not satisfied with this outcome, then you have the right to an internal review, in which case you should email [email address]

You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office, who can be contacted via the following link https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/

Yours sincerely,

Jethro

Jethro Powell
Legal and Compliance Adviser | Corporation
Askham Bryan College, York | Askham Bryan | York | YO23 3FR
T: +44 (0) 1904 772238 | F: +44 (0) 1904 772288 | E: [email address] | www.askham-bryan.ac.uk

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