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GP Recruitment Good Practice Guide

Accessibility

Accessibility Statement

This accessibility statement applies to the website and domain of https://www.recruitmentsupport.scot.nhs.uk.

This website is run by the Scottish Rural Medicine Collaborative (SRMC). We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means that you should be able to:

  • zoom in up to 300% without the text splitting off of the screen
  • navigate most of the website using just a keyboard

How accessible this website is

We know some parts of this website may not fully accessible:

  • PDF or Word documents provided throughout the website and the 'Good Practice' section of the website may not be fully accessible as these may be older or provided by a third party
  • Unable to skip to main content when using keyboard or screen reader

We aim to conform to the WCAG standards issued by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) but recognise that with changes to the content of the site, content may drift from conformance over time. 

The SRMC is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

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

Contact and Feedback Information

If you have any problems using this website, require information in a different format or want to provide us with any other feedback then please contact us.

Enforcement Procedure

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is responsible for enforcing the Public Sector Bodies (Websites 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).

Preparation of this statement

This statement was prepared on 09 October 2020. It was last reviewed on 09 October 2020.

This website was last tested on 08 October 2020. The test was carried out by the SRMC.

Each page of this website was tested, using the https://ace.useit.se/ accessibility evaluation tool recommended by the W3C.

The tool indicated after changes were made that the website our lowest scoring page achieved an accessibility score of 98%. 
Ace it defines there scores as the following:

  • Over 99: Ace it has not found any potential problems related to WCAG.
  • 90-99: There are some issues identified, but the interface probably only has minor accessibility problems..
  • 75-89: There clearly are accessibility issues in the interface.
  • Under 75: There are quite a lot of accessibility problems.