Accessibility
AccessibilityBelow are a number of additional notes and recommendations of interest to visitors to the website who are using assistive technologies or mobile devices, or who may have restrictions on the use of Flash or Javascript due to company policy or device limitations.
Navigation and content is available even if you do not have Javascript activated.
Screen Reader Setting Recommendations
For users of JAWS we recommend the following sort order 'title|text|alt|href' as the best combination to set.
External Sites
We are not responsible for the content or accessibility of other sites linked to from this site.
Links and Images
Note that for all links to documents on this site, the type and file size is shown.
Typically a 100 kilobyte file will take about 15 seconds to download on a 56K modem.
Any links which open a new browser window will be indicated by text or by the 'new window' icon.
All trivial images have null Alt text.
Problems Accessing Documents
If you have any problems accessing the information or documents published on this website, please contact mhts@scotland.gsi.gov.uk.
Adobe Links
The Adobe site offers
free Adobe Acrobat reader we recommend the latest version for the most up to date Accessibility features.
Accessibility Conversion tools may help you convert from one format to another.
PDF Accessibility information from Adobe.
Accessibility Rating
This site will be evaluated using Bobby 5.00.6.3 and by subsequent manual checking and then tested by a visually impaired examiner. It is expected that the site will attain 'AAA' WAI rating.
The site html code will also be validated against XHTML 1.0 Transitional standards, using the W3C and Web Design Group validators, and its styles are CSS2 compliant.
Audio content and navigation for talking browsers and screen readers will be checked by listening to the site using JAWS.