Accessibility statement

Last updated: 7 October 2026

What this statement covers

This statement is about the Audiominutes pages where the public listens to a council's meetings: a council's page, at an address beginning www.audiominutes.com/public-player/, and the page for each recording. Audiominutes is provided by Comquat Ltd.

It does not cover a council's own website. Where a council puts the Audiominutes player on its own pages, those pages are the council's, and are a matter for the council's own accessibility statement.

What we want

We want as many people as possible to be able to follow their council's meetings. The standard we are working to is the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, version 2.2, level AA.

How far we have got

We cannot yet say that these pages meet the standard in full, because they have not yet had a full test.

What has been measured. On 7 October 2026 the pages were checked in the Chrome browser with an automated testing tool, axe, which reported no failures against the standard. It measured the contrast of the text against its background. The pages were also opened in a window 320 pixels wide, and nothing needed scrolling sideways. Automated tools find only some kinds of problem.

What is built in, and not yet tried by a person. Apart from the player, everything you can press on these pages is an ordinary link, button or form field, which is what a keyboard and a screen reader expect. The words at the top of a council's page that say whether a meeting is live are marked so that a screen reader can be told when they change.

What has not been done. The pages have not been tested with a screen reader, or by people who use assistive technology. The player that sits on these pages has not been assessed. We do not yet know whether a screen reader announces the moment a meeting goes live.

What we know is not accessible

Recordings without a transcript. A meeting has a written transcript only where the council has chosen to publish one. Other recordings are sound, or sound and pictures, with no text version. The council's published minutes are the written record of those meetings.

Transcripts are made by a computer. Where there is a transcript it is produced automatically as the meeting is heard, so it can contain mistakes, and names and unusual words are the likeliest to be wrong.

Live meetings without a transcript. The same applies while a meeting is live: there is text to read only where the council publishes a transcript.

If you have a problem, or need this another way

Tell us at hello@audiominutes.com or on +44 (0) 1223 944305. Please say which council's page you were using and what went wrong.

If you need what was said at a meeting in another format, ask the council that held it. The recording and the record of the meeting belong to the council.

How this statement was prepared

This statement was prepared on 7 October 2026, from the automated checks described above. It will be updated when the pages have been tested more fully, and whenever they change in a way that affects it.