Accessibility

The Royal Blind School
A national centre of excellence Click here
Scottish
Braille Press

A leading provider of alternative print formats. Click here
Braeside House
Home for older people who are blind or visually impaired Click here
Scottish
War Blinded

Caring for those blinded in service Click here

ACCESS KEYS:

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

Royal Blind Access Keys:

Access key 0 - Accessibility statement

Access key 1 - Home page

Access key 2 - About Us

Access key 3 - Support Us

Access key 4 - Media Centre

Scottish Braille Press Access Keys:

Access key 0 - Accessibility statement

Access key 1 - Home page

Access key 2 - About Us

Access key 3 - Our Services

Access key 4 - Disability Discrimination Act

Access key 5 - Shop

Access key 6 - Clients

Access key 7 - Contact Us

Access key 8 - Jobs

Braeside House Access Keys:

Access key 0 - Accessibility statement

Access key 1 - Home page

Access key 2 - About Us

Access key 3 - Facilities and Services

Access key 4 - Education

Access key 5 - Care Commission

Access key 6 - News

Access key 7 - Links

Access key 8 - Contact Us

Access key 7 - Intranet

Access key 8 - Jobs

Overall Site Access Keys

Access key P - Privacy policy

Access key T - T&Cs

Access key S - Sitemap

Access key C - Contact Us

STANDARDS COMPLIANCE:

All pages on this site are WCAG A approved, complying wih all priority 1 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Many Priority 2 and 3 guidelines have also been followed in the creation of this web site. Again, this is a judgement call; many guidelines are intentionally vague and can not be tested automatically. We have reviewed all the guidelines and believe that all these pages are in compliance .

IMAGES AND LINKS:

All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes. All links have descriptive TITLE tags explaining their destination.

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.

 

Valid CSS! Valid HTML 4.01 Strict

 

ACCESSIBILITY REFERENCES:

The W3 Accessibility Guidelines - these explain the reasons behind each guideline. W3 Accessibility Techniques - these explain how to implement each guideline. The W3 Accessibility Checklist is a website developer's guide to accessibility

ACCESSIBILITY SOFTWARE:

We test our sites with a number of different web browsers including JAWS, a screen reader for Windows; Home Page Reader, a screen reader for Windows; Lynx, a free text-only web browser for blind users with refreshable Braille displays; Links, a free text-only web browser for visual users with low bandwidth; and Opera, a visual browser with many accessibility-related features, including text zooming, user stylesheets, and image toggle .

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