Glasgow Life is committed to meeting the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) and makes every effort to ensure its communications are accessible. However, if as a person with a disability, you encounter difficulties, please don’t hesitate to contact us and make us aware of the issue.

This website follows the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative's (WAI) Guidelines. The Glasgow Life web portal meets WCAG 2.0 AA guidelines. You can find out more from the Web Accessibility Initiative website.

Text size
The size of the text can be varied by selecting one of the three 'letter A' links displayed at the top of each page.

Changing colours
Changing the site's background colour can be particularly useful for users who rely on magnification technology as white can produce an uncomfortable glare. It is also possible to change the colour of body text on the site.  Both can be achieved by changing preferences in your browser:

Microsoft Internet Explorer

• go to the Tools menu
• select Internet Options
• select Accessibility
• put a tick in the box next to ‘Ignore colours specified on web pages’
• select OK
• select colours
• ensure no tick in the box next to ‘Use Windows colours’
• use Text and Background colour selector 
• confirm colours OK
• confirm options OK

• go to the Tools menu
• select Options
• within options select Content
• select Colours
• ensure no tick in the box next to ‘Allow pages to choose their own colours’
• ensure no tick in the box next to ‘Use system colours’
• use Text and Background colour selectors
• confirm colours OK
• confirm options OK
• Use function key F5 to refresh the screen

Images
All functional images used in this site include titles and descriptive ALT tags.

Viewing/Listening to PDFs
Some of our information is available as a pdf for downloading. Most of these documents are in PDF format which means they can only be viewed using Adobe Reader.

Read Out Loud
The latest version of Adobe Reader comes with the ability to 'read' the PDF content to you. This function is known as 'Read Out Loud' and can be accessed as follows: With the PDF you want read to you open in Adobe Reader version 6 or later, go to the 'View' menu and select 'Read Out Loud', you will then have the option to 'Read This Page Only' or 'Read To End Of Document'.

You can download the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader from Adobe's website.

Links to Other Websites
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