RSCs – Stimulating and Supporting Innovation in Learning
We have endeavoured to make this site usable and accessible. We would like all visitors to be able find the information they are looking for quickly and easily. If you find a problem using this site, please email us at support@rsc-ne-scotland.ac.uk.
Please select a section from the list of links below:
Usability and Accessibility features
Accessibility and Usability Standards
Use the drop-down-menu below to select the screen style that you prefer when viewing this web site:
Once you have chosen a screen style use the menus on this page to visit any other part of this website.
If you require any of our publications in an alternative format please let us know. The following formats are currently offered and supported by RSC Scotland North & East:
Several of these formats require the use of specialised hardware or software in order to access the materials. Please ensure you have the appropriate hardware to access the following formats:
When using this site, you will find a number of features that will help you to find the information you are looking for:
The site is designed to ensure ease of use, particularly when navigating. The navigation list on the left hand side is a static menu and will appear on each page of the site. This will allow you to access other sections of the site by simply selecting the link you require from the left hand menu.
There are also 7 tabs or menu links at the top of each page which comprise of the Home page, About the RSC, News, Events, Services, Contact US and Site Map. These links provide more general information about the RSC Scotland North and East.
A main feature of the site is the ability for uses to set their own visual preferences. The Visual Preferences link is on the right hand side of the RSC logo, directly underneath the ‘Search’ box.
This will take you to the Visual Preferences section where you can choose between ‘High Contrast’ which provides a plain white background with black large text, ‘High Visibility’ which offers a black background with large yellow and white text.
The default setting on the site is ‘Normal Contrast’.
If you are using an audio browser or screen reading software and don't wish to have the navigation read out to you on any page, we have included a 'skip to content' link as one of the first entries on the page. If you select this link you will be taken straight to the page heading, and then the page content.
When you want to return to the home page, you can click on the Home Link (at the top of the navigation on every page).
Each option in the navigation list on the left has a hint, to explain the content found in that section or page. To see the hint, move your mouse over the option and wait for a couple of seconds. The hint will appear.
If you prefer the font size on the RSC Scotland North and East pages to be larger or smaller, you can control this using your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to change the size of the font displayed on the screen either permanently or temporarily. How you increase the font depends upon what browser you are using.
Examples of how to increase or decrease fonts in several popular browsers follows:
Provides 5 font sizes (largest, larger, medium, smaller, and smallest). Medium is the default size.
You change font size by:
Or:
The font size you select will remain in effect until you select a different size.
You can increase or decrease the displayed font size by:
If you have a scroll wheel on your mouse you can also increase and decrease the size of the text by:
You increase or decrease the displayed font size by:
If you have a scroll wheel on your mouse you can also increase and decrease the size of the text by:
Allows users to increase or decrease font size with shortcut keys.
To increase the displayed font size:
To decrease the displayed font size:
Your selected font size will remain in effect until you close Netscape.
Visit your browser's help feature for additional information on this and other browser related topics.
Allows users to increase or decrease font size with shortcut keys.
If you want to increase the size further simply press the '+' key while still holding down the 'Ctrl' key.
To decrease the displayed font size:
If you want to decrease the size further simply press the '-' key while still holding down the 'Ctrl' key.
Your selected font size will remain in effect until you close Firefox.
Visit your browser's help feature for additional information on this and other browser related topics.
Making a site accessible to everyone who wants to use it is important, and we have tried to ensure that our site is completely accessible to all.
All pages on this site support XHTML 1.0 Strict [ Extensible HyperText Markup Language version 1.0 strict DTD]. This is indicated inside the <!doctype> tags on all pages:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> .
The pages has been tested against the standards for Strict HTML given by World Wide Web Consortium [www.w3c.org] as indicated by the following icon: 
All pages on this site features CSS [Cascading Style Sheets]. Some browsers do not support all features in CSS and as a consequence you might experience irregularities in the design.
The most common browsers who are known to cause trouble are:
The pages has been tested against the standards given by World Wide Web Consortium [www.w3c.org] as indicated by the icon shown on each page:
Netscape Navigator/Communicator 4.x users are excluded from some features due to the poor support for Cascading Style Sheets. Netscape has released a new version (8.1.3 – last dated on 30 th May 2007), which supports CSS.
