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Accessibility

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Website Accessibility Policy

The SPL website has been designed to work well with screenreaders and text-only browsers. Fonts have been chosen for their readability, and colours have been chosen that are high contrast. You can also use the settings in your browser to increase the size of a page as an aid to readability. See below for directions.

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Most modern browsers allow you to zoom into or out of a web page by pressing the Ctrl and + or – keys. This will zoom the entire page, both text and images.

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Most modern browsers allow you to zoom into or out of a web page by pressing the Cmd (⌘ or ) and + or – keys. This will zoom the entire page, both text and images.

  • Page Zoom in Linux

Most modern browsers allow you to zoom into or out of a web page by pressing the Ctrl and + or – keys. This will zoom the entire page, both text and images.

 

Standards Compliance

Our goal is for this website to conform to all of the guidelines for the Worldwide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, Level AA. We also do our best to obey the spirit of the Disability Discrimination Acts (DDA) 1995 and 2005.

 

If you have any difficulties…

Web standards and browsers are constantly evolving, and the content of this website is added to regularly. If you have questions about how to better use the site or experience difficulty of any kind please let us know by emailing reception@spl.org.uk.

 

Venue accessibility

The Scottish Poetry Library aims to be as accessible as possible for disabled and D/deaf users. The Scottish Poetry Library is currently reviewing our Building Access Guide, so please email reception@spl.org.uk if you have any queries or view us on Euan’s Guide. Please feel free to contact us for further information.

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The story of the Scottish Poetry Library begins in rooms in Tweeddale Court, in the heart of Edinburgh’s Old Town, an area rich in literary and publishing associations. The founding director, poet Tessa Ransford, was determined that it should...
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