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This site has been designed to be Accessible for people with any degree of visual or motor impairment and users of screen readers.

All trivial images have null Alt text.

Please click on the links to find out about more about the Accessibility of this website:

Low Graphics
Increasing Page Text Size
Changing Page Colours
External Sites
Problems Accessing Documents
Screen Reader Setting Recommendations
Useful Links

Low Graphics

In addition to Accessible graphical pages, the website also provides a Low Graphics option that eliminates most or all imagery from a page. Listeners may also find it easier to hear object-heavy pages (e.g. lots of flash) as the low graphics involves repetitive phrases.

Access the low graphics version of this website using the 'Low Graphics' link at the foot of this page.

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Increasing Page Text Size

You can increase the size of the text using your web browser options.

Increase Text Size using Internet Explorer

View - Text Size - Larger / Largest

Increase Text Size in Internet Explorer

Firefox

View – Text Size – Increase

Increase Text Size in Firefox

Opera

Zoom and 100+ Percentage

Safari

Apple Key and '+' Key

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Changing Page Colours

You may also change the colours using your web browser options.

Internet Explorer

Click on Tools

Change Colours in Internet Explorer start with Tools - Options

Then click on the Accessibility button in the window that pops up

Select Accessibility Option from IE Tools

Then select the 'Ignore colors' option.

Select Ignore Colours from IE Accessibility Options

Note you could also select the 'Ignore font styles' and 'Ignore font size' options to alter the look and size of the text.

Firefox

Select Ignore Styles in Firefox

Opera

View – Style – User Mode

Safari

Not Available

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External Sites

All links to external sites open in a new window and Scottish Executive is not responsible for the content or accessibility of these referenced sites.

All links which open a new browser window will be indicated by this icon Link opens in new window .

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Problems Accessing Documents

If you have any problems accessing the documents published on this website, please contact us and we will supply you with the document in an accessible format.

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Screen Reader Setting Recommendations

For users of JAWS we recommend the following sort order

title|text|alt|href

as the best configuration to set.

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Useful Links

The Adobe site offers:

Link opens in new window There is more information on PDF Accessibility and other issues from the RNIB (Royal National Institute of the Blind) Access Centre.

Useful Links: