Oxford Local Plan 2042: Regulation 18 Report documents - Disproportionate burden assessments for digital accessibility

Accessibility legislation (on legislation.gov.uk website)  that public sector websites must publish content in an accessible format, unless doing so would impose a disproportionate burden on the organisation. If that is the case, an assessment of the extent to which compliance with the accessibility requirement imposes a disproportionate burden must be carried out.

This is a Disproportionate Burden Assessment for the Oxford Local Plan 2042: Regulation 18 Consultation Report documents which are in PDF format.

The benefits of creating an HTML version of this PDF would be:

• a fully accessible version for all users to access
• an easily searchable and indexable version

Due to the length and complexity of the tables in these documents, we’ve estimated that it would take around 4 days of a content designer’s time to create accessible versions of these PDFs.

Also relevant to this decision are that:

• We are legally required to make the document available to the public, so the document will be published on the Council’s website
• Interest in the document has historically been low
• The document does meet accessibility requirements for the majority of users, although some groups will find it disproportionately difficult
• We have and will always assist with accessible versions on request

Having considered the estimated effort involved in making the tables fully accessible, along with the low estimated demand, we have concluded that the work involved would be a poor use of staff time.

However, we will assist with accessible versions if requested.

15 January 2026