Accessibility

Below are a number of additional notes and recommendations of interest to visitors to the website who are using assistive technologies or mobile devices, or who may have restrictions on the use of Javascript due to company policy or device limitations.

Screen readers and PDAs

Navigation and content is available even if you do not have Javascript activated.

However, you may find the website even easier to listen to by switching to the Low Graphics mode at the bottom of each page. This displays the same content and navigation but it has been created for users of screen readers and PDAs so that they get the content first, without images.

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

Access Keys provide a quick way to navigate round the site without using a mouse, and on this site are based on the UK Government Access Keys system.

The keys are used in conjuction with Alt or Ctrl and Enter keys which vary depending on your browser.

1. Hold down

• 'Alt' key if using Internet Explorer for Windows
• 'Alt & Shift' key if using Mozilla/Firefox
• 'Shift' and 'Esc' together if using Opera (note Opera ignores numeric Access Keys)

2. And simultaneously select a key from the list below

3. Then press 'Enter' if using Internet Explorer for Windows PC - other browsers go to the page immediately.

• 0 - Accessibility details
• 1 - Return to homepage
• 3 - Site Map
• 8 - Terms & Confitions

These keys have been selected so as not to conflict with those in use by assistive technologies such as JAWS, Supernova and HomePageReader.

External sites

'Better Together' Scotland's Patient Experience Programme is not responsible for the content or accessibility of other sites linked to from this website.

Links and images

Note that for all links to documents on this site, the type and file size is shown.

Typically a 100 kilobyte file will take about 15 seconds to download on a 56K modem.

Any links which open a new browser window will be indicated by text or by the 'new window' icon.

All trivial images have null Alt text.

Problems accessing documents

If you have any problems accessing the information or documents published on this website, please contact 'Better Together' Scotland's Patient Experience Programme.

Adobe links

The Adobe site offers:

• Free Adobe Acrobat reader - we recommend the latest version for the most up-to-date Accessibility features
• Accessibility Conversion tools may help you convert from one format to another
• PDF Accessibility information from Adobe

'Better Together' Scotland's Patient Experience Programme want to make this website as accessible as possible.

Please let us know if there is anything we could do to make it easier for you to access it, by email, by tel: 0131 244 4841, or by post to:

Better Together Scotland's Patient Experience Programme
Scottish Government
St Andrew's House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH11 3DG