Accessibility

Introduction
Standards Compliance
Site semantics
JavaScript
Skip Links
Visual Design
Adobe Acrobat
Problems with Text Size
Contact us

Introduction

Care Information Scotland is committed to ensuring that this website is accessible to the widest possible range of people. If you have any questions or suggestions regarding the accessibility of this site, or if you have difficulty using any part of it, please contact us on the details at the bottom of this page. 

This page describes some of the features that have been incorporated into the site to aid accessibility for all users.

All pages produced on the Care Information Scotland website will conform to the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

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Standards Compliance

Most pages on this site will conform to the AA standard of the Website Content Accessibilty Guidelines.  

Most Pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.O Strict.

Most Stylesheets on this site validate as CSS.

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Site Semantics

The site has been structured using proper HTML semantics allowing for easy navigation.

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JavaScript

The site makes use of JavaScript for the language select, with JavaScript disabled you will need to use the button to activate the language filter.  The site is not dependent on JavaScript in any way.

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Skip Links

The site makes use of skip links which allows a user to jump to an area of the current page.

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Visual Design

This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers.

If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.

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Adobe Acrobat

Within the website you will need Adobe's Acrobat Reader to view the PDF files.
You can download Portable Document Format (PDF) documents available free of charge using Adobe Reader.

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Problems with Text Size

If you find that the text is too small for you to read, you can change it to a size you're more comfortable with:

• In Windows Internet Explorer, use the View - Text Size menu.
• In Macintosh Internet Explorer and Netscape 6 and 7, use the View - Text Zoom menu.
• In Opera, use the Zoom selector.
• In Firefox and other Mozilla browsers, use the View - Increase Text Size option.
• In Safari, use the View - Make Text Bigger option.

 

If you use a wheel-mouse, you may be able to change the text size by holding down the Control or Command key and turning the wheel. In some browsers you can change the text size using Control or Command and the + and - keys.

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Contact Us

If you have any questions about this website's accessibility please contact:  CareInformationScotland@nhs24.scot.nhs.uk

If you would prefer to contact us electronically please fill in our Contact Us form 

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last updated 30/06/2011