Accessibility
This page describes the steps we have taken to make this website accessible to all users.
Health Scotland is committed to producing websites and web resources that can be accessed by all users. All pages produced on the Health Scotland Immunisation website conform to the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Level-A standard as a minimum.
If you have any difficulties using this website, please contact the Health Scotland Webmaster.
Standards compliance
All pages on this site are Bobby A approved, complying with all priority 1 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
Most pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
Most stylesheets on this site validate as CSS.
Access Keys
The following access keys, in line with current UK Government Accessibility recommendations, are in use on this web site:
- s - Skip Site Navigation
- r - Return to Site Navigation
- 1 - Home Page
- 2 - [not used]
- 3 - [not used]
- 4 - Search
- 5 - Privacy Policy
- 6 - About this site
- 7 - Complaints / Feedback
- 8 - Terms and Conditions
- 9 - Contact Us
- 0 - Accessibility Information and Access Key Details
Tab indexing
Links in the site have been given a tab weighting to allow quick access to each link. The order for tab indexing in a page is as follows:
Top navigation
Side navigation
Breadcrumb navigation
Bottom navigation
Links
Links have title attributes that describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target.
Images
All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Graphics used for layout include null ALT attributes.
Visual design
This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
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.