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Accessibility

This site has been designed to be Accessible.
It attained level WAI 'AAA' on 17th March 2005, and was evaluated using Bobby 5.00.6.3 and by subsequent manual checking.

The site was also validated as XHTML 1.0 Transitional compliant on the 17th March 2005, using the W3C and Web Design Group validators, with CSS compliance.

All pages in the site are Accessible, and many downloadable documents have been provided in both PDF and Word 2000/97 format where possible. New PDFs are created using the best advice on Accessible PDFs from Adobe, and we are gradually converting older PDFs to Accessible versions.

Note that for all links to documents on this site, the type and file size is shown, and also the time to download a document using a 28.8K line.

Audio content and navigation for talking browsers and screen readers has been checked by listening to the site using JAWS.

All trivial images have null Alt text.

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

To aid those using a screen reader or a talking browser or any user agents that support access keys, quick access to the main navigation links are provided via the keyboard using keys based on the the UK Government Access Keys system.

These access keys provide a quick way to navigate round the site without using a mouse.

Hold the 'Alt' key (Windows PC) or 'Ctrl' key (Apple Mac)
Select the key from the list below
Press 'Enter' if using a Windows PC (an Apple Mac takes you straight there)

S - Skip Navigation, go to Content
0 - Access key details

1 - Home
3 - Sitemap
5 - FAQ
9 - Contact Us
G- Glossary

External Sites

All links to external sites open in a new window and NHS Quality Improvement Scotland 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 page opens in a new window icon.

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.

Useful Links

The Adobe site offers