Accessibility statement
Accessibility statement for NHS Education for Scotland Careers website
This accessibility statement applies to the website https://www.careers.nhs.scot/.
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:
- change colours, contrast levels and fonts
- zoom in up to 300% without the text spilling off the screen
- navigate most of the website using just a keyboard
- navigate most of the website using speech recognition software
- listen to most of the website using a screen reader (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)
We’ve also made the website text as simple as possible to understand.
AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability.
How accessible this website is
This website is fully compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard.
Feedback and contact information
If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, please contact us on the following email address support.web@nes.scot.nhs.uk and tell us:
- the web address (URL) of the content
- your name and email address
- the format you would like the information provided in
If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille:
We will reply within five working days to let you know when we will be able to provide the information. We will consider each request but may not be able to provide an alternative accessible format on every occasion.
Any personal data provided as part of the request will be stored in line with our privacy notice.
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).
Technical information about this website’s accessibility
NHS Education for Scotland is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.
Compliance status
The website has been tested against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 AA standard.
This website is fully compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard.
Content that’s not within the scope of the accessibility regulations
PDFs and other documents
The accessibility regulations do not require us to fix PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018 if they’re not essential to providing our services.
Any new PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards.
Live video
We do not plan to add captions to live video streams because live video is exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations.
What we are doing to improve accessibility
We have recently completed a new round of testing and discovered accessibility issues which were fixed in November 2024.
We plan to upgrade our website from 2.1 to 2.2 AA as our next website improvement.
Preparation of this accessibility statement
This statement was prepared on 1st November 2024. It was last reviewed on 1st November 2024.
This website was last tested on 17th October 2024 against the WCAG 2.1 AA standard.
The test was carried out by a member of our website team. The most viewed pages were tested using automated testing tools by our website team. A further audit of the website was carried out to the WCAG 2.1 AA standard.