The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS), a Division of NHS National Services Scotland (NSS), is committed to producing websites and web resources that can be accessed by all users. Each of the Divisions within NHS NSS are working towards making their website WAI Web Accessibility Initiative / WCAG Web Content Accessibility Guidelines compliant. The SNBTS website is hosted on the NHS SHOW internet server in partnership with Scottish Health on the Web (SHOW). More detailed information on SHOW accessibility policies can be found at http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/policies/accessibility.htm.

We have followed the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) by using accessible technologies and access techniques.

To read our W3C Accessibility Checklist click here.

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