We are committed to meeting the requirements of the Equality Act and make every effort to ensure its communications are accessible to people with additional needs, including those with visual, hearing, cognitive and motor impairments.
If you are a person with additional needs and encounter any difficulties at the airport, please don't hesitate to contact us and make us aware of the issue.
We strive to make our website adhere to priority 1 and 2 guidelines of the W3 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
All pages use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS3) for presentation, validated using the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C's) validation service.
All pages use structured semantic mark-up where possible.
Primary site navigation is located at the top of each page.
Secondary navigation elements are contained in the right-hand column. This navigation is not site-wide and varies from page to page.
A link to the home page is available on each page through the Edinburgh Airport logo.
Navigation menus are marked up as HTML lists and styled with CSS.
Many links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail.
Links are written to make sense out of context.
Link text is never duplicated. Two links on the same page with the same text always point to the same address.
Some links, mostly to external sites, open a new browser window.
Forms have their labels explicitly associated with their controls, aiding users of certain screen readers and speech browsers.
Every page of the site features a Help link at the top. Our help section exists to help you find key information in the site, and also features tips on how to search the site. Links to our policies, including our privacy statement, our terms and conditions, and this accessibility statement, appear at the bottom of every page.
To enhance user experience, this site utilises a small amount of JavaScript. If you have disabled JavaScript, or your browser software does not fully support it, the site remains operable.
All functional images used in this site include descriptive ALT tags. Purely decorative graphics include a 'null' ALT attribute.
This site uses a Cascading Style Sheet for visual layout, validated using the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C's) validation service.
Frames are used only where necessary to display third-party content.
The style sheet is written to display pages correctly in most commonly-used browsers. In browsers which do not support style sheets, the flow of content has been tested to ensure it completely retains its sense.
Foreground and background colours on this site have been selected to provide a proper level of contrast for ease of reading.
Where a high-accessibility version of a site tool is available, a link will be found to it within the tool.
Throughout the site, colour is never used as a sole means to convey information.
None of our content includes blinking text or images, and nothing on this site will cause your screen to flicker. Animation has been kept to a minimum, and is generally illustrative of content already on the site. Where animation is more than illustrative, transcripts and audio files are provided.
Flash animation will never be used for critical information such as arrivals and departures or security alerts. Interactive maps in Flash will always have static counterparts.
Where core Edinburgh Airport content is relayed via audio and/or video files, these files are accompanied by PDF transcripts.
AbilityNet's My Computer My Way site offers a guide to making your PC accessible. It offers help with seeing the screen, using your keyboard and mouse, and with language and reading.
