This page describes the features that have been incorporated into the website in order to aid accessibility for all users.

Argyll and Bute Council Community Service: Education department is committed to producing a website that can be accessed by the widest cross section of users as possible. We recognize our responsibilities and obligations under the Disability Discrimination Act and endeavour to produce a website that confirms to the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) (external link) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

Standards compliance
Most pages on this site are Bobby AA approved, complying with all priority 1 and 2 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
Most pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
Most stylesheets on this site validate as CSS.

Tab indexing
Links in the site have been given a tab weighting to allow quick access to each link. The order for tab indexing in a page is as follows:
Top Navigation (top links)
Main navigation (left column)

Images
All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.

Visual design
This website uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets the content of each page will be readable.
The site has been designed so that text will scale proportionally in relation to the size of text in a browser. Most browsers allow the user to increase or decrease the text size.

Text
The site has been designed so that text will scale proportionally in relation to the size of text in a browser. Most browsers allow the user to increase or decrease the text size.

On Windows
If you use Firefox, Mozilla or Netscape Navigator version 6 or later, change the text size by holding down the CTRL key and press the plus key (CTRL + plus) or minus key (CTRL + minus) to increase or decrease the text size respectively.
If you use Internet Explorer, on the menu bar choose View > Text Size and then the desired size from the list.

On Macintosh OS X
In all the most popular browsers, excluding Opera, hold down the Command key and press the plus (CMD + plus) or minus (CMD + minus) key to increase or decrease the text size respectively.
In Opera on Windows and Macintosh OS X
Unlike other browsers, Opera uses a 'page zoom' feature to magnify text and images on a web page. To choose a different zoom level, from Opera's menu bar choose View > Zoom and then the percent of magnification you desire.