NHS Education for Scotland
A skilled and sustainable workforce for a healthier Scotland
NHS Education for Scotland
A skilled and sustainable workforce for a healthier Scotland
The website is fully accessible in line with the new government legislation.
This website is improved on a regular basis in an Agile way and we want to be clear and transparent with regards to what we are doing to improve accessibility for the users of this software.
This website is run by NHS Education for Scotland . We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:
AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability.
This website is compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard.
New documents we publish and documents you need to download or fill in to access one of the services we provide should be fully accessible.
However, we know that some of our older documents (published before 23 September 2018) are not accessible. For example, some of them:
This mostly applies to our older PDF and Word documents examples of them are located within our procurement and board paper sections. These types of documents are exempt from the regulations, so we do not currently have any plans to make them accessible.
From September 23rd 2020 all video content should have captions. However there may be circumstances where this is not possible such as:
As a result, manual correction of captions is required for our videos and this is one of the factors we assess when we consider our approach to developing captions and transcripts for videos.
This would be a fail on WCAG Success Criterion 1.2.2 Captions (Prerecorded).
Some of our older videos and live streams do not have captions. This type of video content is exempt from the regulations and we do not currently have any plans to make them accessible.
Getting in touch
If there is video content that you are not able to access and wish to do so please get in touch at support.web@nes.scot.nhs.uk and we will consider your request and get back to you within 5 days.
If you are currently using captions to access our video content, we would love to hear from you with any feedback as this will allow us to improve our service.
If you need information on this website 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.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is responsible for enforcing the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Websites) (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) .
Our offices have audio induction loops, or if you contact us before your visit we can arrange a British Sign Language (BSL) interpreter. If you are deaf and would like to communicate with us without visiting the office please contact us using the email address below and we can use contactSCOTLAND-BSL interpretation service to discuss your issues.
Email:colin.sanders@nhs.scot
Telephone: 0141 223 1400 (ask for Colin Sanders)
Address: 2 Central Quay, 89 Hydepark Street, Glasgow, G3 8BW
NHS Education for Scotland is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Websites) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.
This website is compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard.
This website was last tested on the 18th September 2020. The test was carried out by a member of staff from NES Digital using a combination of Funkify (Chrome plugin) and Lighthouse Accessibility Auditing Tools (integrated Chrome and Internet Explorer development tool).
Pages that were tested: