The Scotland Excel website has been designed with accessibility in mind, coded to strict standards to ensure that it operates across multiple platforms and browsers, to enable all users to access content, regardless of personal disabilities.

This policy applies only to web pages on the Scotland Excel website and not to any Third party websites this site links to.

Access keys

Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the website.

On Windows, press ALT + an access key then press enter

On Macintosh, press CTRL + an access key then press enter

Pages on this site use the following access keys for common tasks:

• ALT+2, Enter / CTRL+2, Enter : Skip to Content
• ALT+3, Enter / CTRL+3, Enter: Skip to section navigation
• ALT+4, Enter / CTRL+4, Enter : Skip to navigation

Standards compliance

Scotland Excel has tried to ensure, as far as possible, that all pages on this site comply with the guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines to the AA standard.

Images

All content images used in this site should include descriptive alt tags. Purely decorative graphics include empty tags. Complex images may include longdesc tags or inline descriptions to explain the significance of each image to non-visual readers.

Visual design

This site primarily uses cascading style sheets for visual layout and relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified 'text size' option in visual browsers. The site has a built in 'text size' adjuster on the top right of all pages but if you need to change the 'text size' in your web browser, instructions are available below:

In Internet Explorer go to View / Text Size and select the desired size.

In Firefox go to View / Text Size and select Increase until the text is a suitable size .

In Opera go to View / Zoom and select the desired level.

If your browser does not support style sheets at all, the content of each page will still be readable.

Accessibility references

www.w3.org/WAI/ - W3 accessibility guidelines, which explains the reasons behind each guideline.

www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/full-checklist.html - This is the checklist used to verify this site's accessibility.

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