Civvy Street is committed to providing both accessible services and an accessible website to our members and visitors. You will find details of useful tools and accessibility features for website visitors on this page.
National Content
Select 'Scotland' at the top of the page to see specific Scottish content where available. National content for Wales, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Spain, Germany and France will be coming soon.
Useful links to other sites based on areas like England & Scotland (Wales, Northern Ireland & Republic of Ireland coming soon) are placed under heading 'Living and working in' accompanied by following symbols:
Section level content visiblity
Various content sections can be minimzed and maximized on your preference by following the links titled 'Minimise this section' 
and 'Maximise this section' 
. These links are also labeled as 'Show/Hide the details' on the sub-level content.
Plain English
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Accessibility Features
Access Keys
Visitors can use a number of Access Key shortcuts to reach the main sections of this site without having to use a mouse. The access keys are based on UK government recommendation and are as follows:
- 1: Home page
- 3: Sitemap
- 8: Terms of Use (Legal Notice)
- 9: Contact
- 0: Accessibility Statement (this page)
Navigation
A 'Skip to content' link has been placed at the beginning of each page to allow screen reader and keyboard users to link to the main content sections of the page.
A link has also been provided at the beginning of each page to provide easy access to this information on accessibility.
Headings and navigation menus
HTML heading tags are used to convey document structure. H1 tags are used for main titles, H2 tags for subtitles etc.
Navigation menus are marked up as HTML lists. This ensures that the number of links in the list is read out at the start and it can be skipped easily.
Images
All images used in this site include descriptive alt tag attributes.
Colours
We have taken care to ensure that the site's font and background colour combinations contrast significantly.
Font size
The font used on our site are can be changed in size. You can do this by changing the font in your browser settings to your own preference.
Stylesheets
This site uses cascading style sheets for all visual layout. If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the use of structured semantic mark up ensures that the content of each page is still readable and clearly structured.
Tables
Data tables have header cells, to allow screen readers to render them intelligently. Table summaries are used.
We are currently forced to use tables for layout due to technical limitations but we have ensured that their use is kept to a minimal and we are working towards avoiding such practice altogether.
Forms and fields
All forms fields follow a logical tab sequence to ensure easy navigation.
Most form fields also have 'label' and 'id' attributes to explicitly associate the form field with its label to allow for easy entry of data.
Javascript
Where javascript is used, we have tried to enusre that all pages and processes remain accessible should Javascript be turned off.
Links
All links have been written to make sense when taken out of context.
Links to external websites open a new browser window. Screen reader users are duly informed in such cases.