This is the official accessibility statement for the Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People.
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Standards compliance:
All pages on this site is WCAG A approved, complying wih allpriority 1 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Many Priority 2 and 3 guidelines have also been followed in the creation of this web site. Again, this is a judgement call; many guidelines are intentionally vague and can not be tested automatically. We have reviewed all the guidelines and believe that all these pages are in compliance.
Images:
All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.
Visual design:
This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout. 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.
Accessibility references:
W3 accessibility guidelines, which explains the reasons behind each guideline.
W3 accessibility techniques, which explains how to implement each guideline.
W3 accessibility checklist, a busy developer's guide to accessibility.
Accessibility software:
JAWS, a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited, downloadable demo is available.
Lynx, a free text-only web browser for blind users with refreshable Braille displays.
Links, a free text-only web browser for visual users with low bandwidth.
Opera, a visual browser with many accessibility-related features, including text zooming, user stylesheets, image toggle. A free downloadable version is available. Compatible with Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and several other operating systems.