Accessibility

This accessibility statement applies to the Environmental Standards Scotland (ESS) website, and it outlines the accessibility standards to which the website has been built, and how you can get in touch with us if you need further assistance.

This website has been built to be as accessible as possible for everyone, which means you should be able to do any or all of the following:

• • change colours, contrast levels and fonts
  • zoom in up to 400% without the text spilling off the screen
  • navigate most of the website using just a keyboard
  • listen to most of the website using a screen reader (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)

Further advice from AbilityNet on how to make your device easier to use if you have a disability is available in their AbilityNet My Computer My Way section.

Feedback and contact

If you experience any problems at all accessing any part of this website, please let us know by getting in touch using our contact form.

Or you can call us on 0808 196 4000 and leave us a message, and we will get back to you.

Alternatively, you can write to us at:

Environmental Standards Scotland
Thistle House
91 Haymarket Terrace
Edinburgh
EH12 5HD

Compliance status

This website is mostly compliant with WCAG Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard, which means that the website is almost completely accessible. However we know that there are some features that may not be fully accessible.

Non-accessible content

Some of our pages contain links to PDFs which may not all be accessible.

However, for PDFs and documentations published after 23^rd September 2018 – as per the accessibility regulations below – a web page alternative has been provided.

Not within the scope of the regulations

The accessibility regulations do not cover PDF or other documents published before 23 September 2018 if they’re not essential to providing our services.

Any documentation content created after this date must be provided in an accessible format.