We aim to make this website usable by as many people as possible.
Ways of using this site
Using screen readers
This site has been designed with screen readers Like Jaws and Apple VoiceOver in mind.
Using keyboard navigation
You can navigate this website using the keyboard.
| Interaction | Keystrokes |
|---|---|
| Navigate to most elements | TabShift + Tab – navigate backward |
| Link | Enter |
| Button | Enter or Spacebar |
| Checkbox | Spacebar – check/uncheck a checkbox |
| Radio buttons | ↑/↓ or ←/→ – select an option.Tab – move to the next element. |
| Select (dropdown) menu | ↑/↓ – navigate between menu optionsSpacebar – expand |
| Autocomplete | Type to begin filtering↑/↓ – navigate to an optionEnter – select an option |
| Dialog | Esc – close |
| Menu bar | ↑/↓ – Previous/next menu optionEnter – expand the menu (optional) and select an option.←/→ – expand/collapse submenu |
| Tab panel | Tab – once to navigate into the group of tabs and once to navigate out of the group of tabs↑/↓ or ←/→ – previous/next tab. |
| ‘Tree’ menu | ↑/↓ – Navigate Previous/next menu option←/→ – expand/collapse submenu, move up/down one level. |
| Scroll | ↑/↓ – scroll vertically←/→ – scroll horizontallySpacebar/Shift + Spacebar – scroll by page |
Our Accessibility Aims
Aims
Evaluation Support Scotland commits to making its websites accessible in line with accessibility regulations.
As part of this, we aim to surpass Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 to AA Success criteria.
Content that might be non-accessible
- Embedded media (Twitter and Youtube, for example).
- PDF Documents
- Images on the site which contain text.
Roadmap
Evaluation Support Scotland is working towards greater accessibility.
We aim to
- Have alternate HTML versions of new PDF content and transcripts for videos on the site.
- Reduce or eliminate text in images. Where there is text in images on the website, we are working to ensure alternate versions of this text are available.