Gloucester Green Market - Survey of Traders Report document - Disproportionate burden assessments for digital accessibility

Accessibility legislation (on legislation.gov.uk website) states 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 Gloucester Green Market - Survey of Traders Report 2026 report which is in PDF format.

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

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

Given the number of charts and tables within the documents and the length of it, we estimate that it would take two working days to make the PDF fully accessible and this would not be a good use of resource.

Also relevant to this decision are that:

• The document does meet accessibility requirements for a large number of users, although some groups will find it disproportionately difficult
• The document is from a third-party source or organisation
• We expect interest in the document to be relatively low
• We have and will always assist with accessible versions on request

Based on the above, we assess that changing the whole document to a more accessible format would be a disproportionate burden and not a good use of resources.

A summary of key findings is provided at the end of the document.

26 October 2026