Accessibility

The Scottish Public Health Observatory (ScotPHO) collaboration is making every effort to ensure that the ScotPHO website is as accessible as possible. We aim to make our website and products accessible according to published guidelines.

Over the coming months we will be testing our new website to assess its compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and checking the validity of the site's html source code and cascading stylesheets (CSS). Where this testing identifies shortcomings in our compliance with published web standards, these will be addressed as a matter of priority. We will report here the results of our compliance testing.

In the meantime, if you have any problems with accessing content on our website please use our staff directory to find the relevant contact for the page / section in question. We can then make arrangements to supply you with an appropriate version of the information.

Downloadable documents

We aim to follow best advice on accessible PDFs from Adobe. We will gradually be converting existing PDF documents on our website to accessible versions. It is our intention to provide the following information for all links to downloadable documents on this site: file type and file size.

Race equality

We can make arrangements for translating information supplied in our publications. If you would like to view an item in a different language, large print or Braille (English only), or would like information on how it can be translated into your community language, please contact us.

Printer friendly versions

A printer friendly version stylesheet is applied to this website and all pages will automatically print using this.

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.

Access keys

We will soon be adding access keys to provide quick access via the keyboard to the main navigation links for the site. This is an aid to those using a screen reader or a talking browser or any user agents that support access keys. The access keys will be based on the UK Government Access Key system.

Favourites

If you intend to revisit a page on a regular basis we recommend that you add the page address to your browser's favourites or bookmarks list.