Accessibility

As this site develops the web team will make every effort to ensure that the design conforms to the highest web standards for both usability and accessibility

Adobe Acrobat

SBC internet guidelines recommends that the use of Adobe Acrobat PDF files be kept to a minimum. PDF files are intended only for documents that need to be printed, which includes many of the documents in this site.

These documents are created by:

Adobe Acrobat Version 6 - which has built in accessibility features,
the 'Accessibility Plug-in' with Adobe Acrobat version 5.

For further details on Acrobat, PDF Files and accessibility please visit Access Adobe.

Forms and E-Mail

You will be able to contact the CfE team using an online form. There are several benefits by doing this:

most importantly, users without e-mail capabilities will be able to contact the council - these could be people using the computers at libraries, schools or colleges, behind a firewall or at an internet cafe,
to defeat e-mail address harvesters - tools that collect e-mail addresses for spammers - and reduce spam,
to reduce the amount of personal e-mail addresses in documents - if that person is not available (on vacation, or no longer in that post) they won't be able to reply.

Plain English

It is an aim of SBC that as many documents and publications as possible meet the standards raised by The Plain English Campaign. Each department is responsible for training staff, and sending its documents to be rated. As a result the 'Crystal Mark' is appearing on more and more of SBC's documents.

These aims and skills are being used when writing for the web.


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Accessibility As this site develops the web team will make every effort to ensure that the design conforms to the highest web standards for both usability and accessibility Adobe Acrobat SBC internet guidelines recommends that the use of Adobe Acrobat PDF files be kept to a minimum. PDF files are intended only for documents that need to be printed, which includes many of the documents in this site. These documents are created by: Adobe Acrobat Version 6 - which has built in accessibility features, the 'Accessibility Plug-in' with Adobe Acrobat version 5. For further details on Acrobat, PDF Files and accessibility please visit Access Adobe. Forms and E-Mail You will be able to contact the CfE team using an online form. There are several benefits by doing this: most importantly, users without e-mail capabilities will be able to contact the council - these could be people using the computers at libraries, schools or colleges, behind a firewall or at an internet cafe, to defeat e-mail address harvesters - tools that collect e-mail addresses for spammers - and reduce spam, to reduce the amount of personal e-mail addresses in documents - if that person is not available (on vacation, or no longer in that post) they won't be able to reply. Plain English It is an aim of SBC that as many documents and publications as possible meet the standards raised by The Plain English Campaign. Each department is responsible for training staff, and sending its documents to be rated. As a result the 'Crystal Mark' is appearing on more and more of SBC's documents. These aims and skills are being used when writing for the web. Accessibility \| Copyright \| SBC Curriculum for Excellence Team: lalexander@scotborders.gov.uk