Accessibility

Below are a number of additional notes and recommendations of interest to visitors to the website who are using assistive technologies or mobile devices, or who may have restrictions on the use of Javascript due to company policy or device limitations.

There are various colours available for viewing the site it. Please select your preferred choice from the list below.

• Black text on White background
• White text on Black background
• Dark Blue text on Cream background
• Dark Blue text on Light Blue background

Screen readers and PDAs

Navigation and content is available even if you do not have Javascript activated.

Screen reader setting recommendations

For users of JAWS, we recommend the following sort order 'title|text|alt|href' as the best combination to set.

Access Keys

Access Keys provide a quick way to navigate round the site without using a mouse, and on this site are based on the UK Government Access Keys system.

The keys are used in conjuction with Alt or Ctrl and Enter keys which vary depending on your browser.

1. Hold down

• 'Alt' key if using Internet Explorer for Windows
• 'Alt & Shift' key if using Mozilla/Firefox
• 'Shift' and 'Esc' together if using Opera (note Opera ignores numeric Access Keys)

2. And simultaneously select a key from the list below

3. Then press 'Enter' if using Internet Explorer for Windows PC - other browsers go to the page immediately.

• s - Skip to content
• 0 - Accessibility page
• 1 - Return to Contents
• 2 - Return to the top of any page

These keys have been selected so as not to conflict with those in use by assistive technologies.

External sites

We are not responsible for the content or accessibility of other sites linked to from this website.

Links and images

Note that for all links to documents on this site, the type and file size is shown.

Any links which open a new browser window will be indicated by text or by the 'new window' icon.

Problems accessing documents

If you have any problems accessing the information or documents published on this website, please contact us.

Adobe links

The Adobe site offers:

• Free Adobe Acrobat reader - we recommend the latest version for the most up-to-date Accessibility features
• Accessibility Conversion tools may help you convert from one format to another
• PDF Accessibility information from Adobe

We want to make this website as accessible as possible. Please let us know if there is anything we could do to make it easier for you to access it, by email, by tel: 0131 000 0000, or by post to:

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