Accessibility Statement

This is the official accessibility statement for care and Repair Scotland. If you have any questions or comments, please contact us.

Access keys

Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site. On Windows, you can press ALT + an access key; on Macintosh, you can press Control + an access key.

All pages on this site define the following access keys:

Access key h - Home page

Access key s - Site Map

Access key t - Text Only Version of Current Page

Access key c - Contact Form

Access key a - Accessibility statement

Access key n - Newsletter Signup

Standards compliance

All pages on this site are WCAG AA approved, complying wih all priority 1 and 2 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Where possible pages meet level 3 of the guidlines.

All pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict.

All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. H1 tags are used for main titles, H2 tags for subtitles.

Links

Many links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target (such as the headline of an article).

Links are written to make sense out of context.

Images

All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics 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.