This accessibility statement relates to all web content of the Business Bulletin website located at https://bb.parliament.scot.
The Business Bulletin site is run by the Scottish Parliament Corporate Body (SPCB). We are committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. We are continually improving the user experience for everyone, and applying the relevant accessibility standards.
We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:
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.
We know some parts of this website are not fully accessible:
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We will do our best to provide you with the content you need in a format that is suitable for you. Please get in touch.
We’ll aim to reply within 2 working days.
We’re always looking to improve the accessibility of this website. If you find any problems that are not listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, please contact us by doing the following:
If you request a response, we'll aim to reply within 2 working days.
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).
SPCB is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)defines requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA. The Open Data website is partially conformant with WCAG 2.1 level AA, due to the non-compliances listed below.
Partially conformant means that some parts of the content do not fully conform to the accessibility standard.
The content listed below is non-accessible for the following reasons.
Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations
Most of the issues flagged in regards to accessibility are connected to the navigation. This fails WCAG 2.1 AA Success Criteria 1.1.1, 1.3.1, 2.1.1, 2.4.2, 2.4.4, 2.4.7, 3.2.3, 3.2,4, 4.1.1, 4.1.2 when identifying alt text, titles, markups, labels and names, keyboard navigation, and links issues.
Some pages contain content that is hard to understand due to its length and usage. This fails WCAG 2.1 AA success criterion 3.1.2.
We’ll fix this as part of the continuous-improvement work we're committed to as part of our new web operating model. Due to the legacy systems where some of the information in the Business Bulletin is created, this is not something that we can solve in the short-term.
You may also find some visual presentations of text and images of text that have a contrast ratio below 4.5:1, failing WCAG 2.1 AA success criterion 1.4.3.
We’ll fix this through the development of a new Scottish Parliament website. We intend to close down most of the current website by March 2021 but it is possible that some issues with the Business Bulletin will not be fixed by this time.
Some articles may have uploaded files in PDF format. Older PDFs documents may not meet accessibility standards. For example, they may not be structured to be accessible to a screen reader. This does not meet WCAG 2.1 success criterion 4.1.2.
However, it passed on manual and automated tests, presenting a good level of accessibility with bookmarks, tab support, and reading order.
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 we publish will meet accessibility standards.
This website was last tested in March 2020. The test was carried out by accessibility Passion4Social CIC (third-party), not involved in the design and development process.
We used this approach to test:
We tested the following pages:
As all pages are based on the same platform and template, they have not been tested individually but some samples have been selected from all of them.
Business Bulletins is designed to be compatible with the following assistive technologies:
Accessibility of Business Bulletins relies on the following technologies to work with the particular combination of web browser and any assistive technologies or plugins installed on your computer:
These technologies are relied upon for conformance with the accessibility standards used.
Check out the full evaluation report.
This statement was prepared on 03 August 2020.