Royal Pharmaceutical Society Scotland

Accessibility

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The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain is fully committed to ensuring that its website is accessible and inclusive for all user groups, including people with disabilities. The design and build of the website has taken into account the following guidelines:

The Disability Discrimination Act states unambiguously that private and public sector web sites must be accessible. Guidelines include:

  • Allowing users to control text sizes
  • Using an easy to read font type
  • Ensuring suitable foreground and background colour contrast
  • Using clear and simple grammar
  • Providing meaningful text equivalents for pictures
  • Providing simple and consistent site navigation
  • Ensuring the target of each link is clearly defined
  • Providing a full sitemap
  • Providing navigational short cuts for users of text only browsers and page readers
  • Using appropriate structural mark-up to maximise browser support
  • Ensuring all content and functionality is available to users without content style sheet (CSS), image and script support

Standards compliance

1. The pages on our website conform at a minimum to level A compliance as specified by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and endorsed by the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB). The majority of pages meet level AA and AAA requirements.

2. The pages within the website should validate as XHTML 1.1 strict and use structured semantic markup. The CSS also validates.

3. All pages on this site use structured semantic markup, eg, H1 tags are used for main titles, H2 tags for subtitles.

Colours

We have checked the site's font and background colour combinations against the different colour blindness conditions and ensured that all information is still clear.

PDF documents

A number of downloadable PDF documents are available to download from the web site. In order to view these files, you may need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader from the Adobe website.

Font sizes

You may change the font size of this document to your preference through your browser.

If you would like to comment on the accessibility of our site please contact us.

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