This website aspires to follow the accessibility guidelines issued by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
It aims to meet Level AA of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0.
Limitations
Please note: some parts of the site are run on external systems, such as the twitter feed, and may not meet accessibility standards.
Text size
You may find that the text size on the page is too small or too big for you to read comfortably.
If you would like to change the size of the text to make it easier to read, please follow the step by step instructions below depending on your browser type.
- Internet Explorer: Select the “View” menu, then “Text size”
- Firefox: Select the “View” menu, then “Zoom” or “Zoom text only”
- Internet Explorer and Firefox: In both browsers, if you are using a mouse with a scroll wheel, you can increase and decrease the text size by holding down the ‘Ctrl’ key and rotating the wheel. You can also hold down the ‘Ctrl’ key and press ‘+‘ to increase or ‘–‘ to decrease the text size.
- Safari: Select the “View” menu, then “Make text bigger” or “Make text smaller”
- Opera: Select the “View” menu, then “Zoom”
For more information on changing the settings on your computer or browser to make the web more accessible to you, visit the BBC – My Web My Way website.
Non-HTML Documents – Acrobat (PDF) files
Many documents on this site are provided as PDF (Portable Document Format) files. Adobe Reader is required to read these – this is free software which can be downloaded from Adobe’s website.
In most cases, the file size is shown immediately after the link to give an indication of how long the document will take to download.
Current versions of Adobe Reader have a built-in text to speech function which enables PDF documents to be read aloud. Visit the Adobe website for more details.
Alternative Formats
Our publications can be made available in alternative formats or translated into other languages. Please contact us using details on our getting involved page for more information.
If you are or you know someone who is a British Sign Language (BSL) user who would like to contact us to request a publication in an alternative format, please contact us via the Contact Scotland BSL Service, the on-line British Sign Language interpreting video relay service to share the request, on https://contactscotland-bsl.org/ or call 0131 510 4555.
