Accessibility Statement
Learning and Teaching Scotland has ensured that all pages produced by our development teams validates against XHTML Transitional standard. However, on occasions we do use third party tools within our web sites and LT Scotland have no control over the HTML produced by these controls and therefore cannot ensure that the code produced is valid XHTML.
This page describes some of the features that have been incoporated into the site to aid accessibility for all users.
Standards compliance
 | Pages on this site are Bobby AAA approved, complying with all priority 1, 2, and 3 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. |
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| Pages on this site are Section 508 approved, complying with all of the U.S. Federal Government Section 508 Guidelines. |
 | Pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional. |
 | Stylesheets on this site validate as CSS. |
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 1
- Home page
- Access key 9
- Contact Us
- Access key 0
- Accessibility statement
Access Keys are also available for each section in the site and have been set as the first letter of the section name, for example B is the access key for Background, N is the access key for News.
Tab Indexing
Links in the site have been given a tab weighting to allow quick access to each link. The order for tab indexing in a page is as follows:
- Content Links
- Main Navigation
- Breadcrumb Navigation
- Sub Section Navigation
- Related Links
- Vote Form
Links
Links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target.
Images
- All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.
- Complex images include LONGDESC attributes or inline descriptions to explain the significance of each image to non-visual readers.
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.