Accessibility guidelines for our websites and digital services
Accessibility isn’t one person’s job – anyone working on building services for Scottish Enterprise and our partners should know how to follow our accessibility guidelines.
Our guidelines for sites and digital services
These might be particularly useful if you're a designer, developer or writer, but can apply to anyone working on our sites and services.
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Writing accessible content
Plain English, headings, readability and more.
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Images and alt text
What is alt text and when should you use it?
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Video and audio
Captions, transcripts, audio description and more.
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Links and buttons
Making sure everyone can access and understands our links.
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Colours and contrast
Making sure colours can be seen and understood by everyone.
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Text and typography
Font type, font size and line height.
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Forms and fields
Making sure our forms are accessible.
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Navigation and functionality
How users interact with and navigate around different parts of our sites.
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Publishing PDFs online
Why we don't recommend publishing PDFs, and some alternative options.
Looking for quick tips for specific disabilities or access needs?
It's important you follow our full guidelines, but we've also provided some quick tips to meet the needs of specific groups of people. We've also included links to the GOV.uk posters for each group.