NHS Education for Scotland (NES) are committed to easy access for everyone. We're constantly working towards improving the accessibility of this application to ensure we provide equal access to all of our users.

This application is run by NHS Education for Scotland. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this application. For example, that means you should be able to:

• zoom in up to 300% without the text spilling off the screen
• navigate most of the application using just a keyboard
• navigate most of the application using speech recognition software
• skip to content links at the top of the page

AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability.

How accessible this application is

We know some parts of this application aren’t fully accessible:

• there are some missing styles for focus elements such as dropdown menus which make it visually difficult to see what your keyboard is focused on when tabbing through the menu
• there are some colour contrast issues on links on the footer which might make them difficult to read for people with visual impairments
• The date pickers are not accessible when using keyboard entry which means users cannot select a date using just the keyboard date picker
• Users with screen readers have issues accessing data displayed from external software such as Power BI

What to do if you can't access parts of this application

If you need information on this application in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille:

Email: support.web@nes.scot.nhs.uk

Telephone: 0141 223 1400 (ask for Colin Sanders).

We’ll consider your request and get back to you in 5 days.

Enforcement procedure

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is responsible for enforcing the Public Sector Bodies (Applications and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018 (the ‘accessibility regulations’). If you’re not happy with how we respond to your complaint contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS).

Technical information about this application’s accessibility

NHS Education for Scotland is committed to making its application accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Applications and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

This application is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard, due to the non-compliances listed below.

Non accessible content

The site is not optimised for browsing via a screen reader. Aria landmark roles are not implemented on the site as per WCAG 1.3.1 and WCAG 2.4.1

How we tested this application

This application was tested on the 18th September 2019. The test was carried out by a member of staff from NES Digital using a combination of Accessibility Insights (Chrome plugin) and Accessibility Auditing Tools (integrated Chrome development tool).

Due to Turas applications having a variety of different users and how they interact with the system we decided to test the application using a variety of different logins.

Within this we tested:

• Homepage
• Pages with form elements
• Pages with Data displayed from External sources
• Pages with text

What we are doing to improve accessibility

We planned to get this application fully compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard within this financial year. However due to team capacity this may not be possible, but we will try our best to remedy any issues as soon as we can.

We will be updating our roadmap to accessibility in which you will be able to see our planned accessibility work for the next year.