Road Safety Scotland

Accessibility statement

We are working hard to ensure that all pages produced on the Road Safety Scotland website will conform to the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Double-A standard.

Road Safety Scotland have implemented a number of useful features that will help all users browse and discover resources on our website. These features include:

  • Providing a site wide standard layout and navigation structure

  • Alternative textual descriptions for images

  • Allowing the user to resize the text using the browsers resize option

  • Allow users to skip directly to the content area of the page

  • All pages have a logical document structure using headings and paragraphs to aid navigation with alternative browsers

  • Link text will make sense when read out of context

  • 'Breadcrumb' trail navigation to help with navigation within a section of the site

  • A sitemap which provides an overview of the site structure and organisation

  • Cascading style sheets for visual layout and presentation

  • 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

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. Pressing ENTER will then take you to that page.

All pages on this site define the following access keys:

  • Access key 3 - Site map

  • Access key 4 - Search

  • Access key 6 - Help

  • Access key 0 - Access key details

Technical compliance

The Road Safety Scotland website strives hard to ensure that the production of the pages meets industry standard standards:

  • Pages on this site are Bobby AA approved, complying with all priority 1 and 2 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

  • Pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional.

  • Stylesheets on this site validate as CSS.

Contact Information

We've done our best to ensure this site is as accessible as possible. If you do find any accessibility problems that affect or prevent your use of the site, please let us know and we'll do our best to address the problem as soon as possible.

Email: enquiries@ltscotland.org.uk
Tel: 0131 472 9200
Fax: 0131 472 9201


Address:
Road Safety Scotland
Heriot-Watt Research Park (North),
Riccarton,
Currie,
Edinburgh EH14 4AP

Updated on: 07 December 2007 Accessibility | Help | Site map | Terms of use