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Accessibility

Last updated: 29/07/2021

One Parent Families Scotland (OPFS) is committed to providing accessible and inclusive content for all users, however you may find that altering certain settings on some browsers may improve your browsing experience. Find out more about altering your browser settings – https://www.w3.org/WAI/users/browsing. 

Content and design

OPFS has designed and developed its website with accessibility in mind.

For example:

  • All pages and topics have clear text headings
  • Sentence are kept short as much as possible and have clear meanings at the beginning
  • Link text use meaningful text
  • Colours are based on OPFS branded colours and are used to denote and separate specific content

Page layouts

To conform to W3 accessibility guidelines, cascading style sheets have been used to create the layout of this site. However, the functionality and content are independent of this technology and users may disable the default style sheets to maximise flexibility with font resizing or implement their own style sheets in their browser preferences.

Please visit the W3 accessibility guidelines for more information.

Accessibility software

Below is a list of popular software that may be useful for customising this site to your needs. Some of these assistive technologies are free, some are commercial but have free demos.

  • NVDA, a free screen reader that is compatible with Windows and available in multiple languages
  • VoiceOver, a screen reader built into Apple Inc.’s macOS and iOS, which allows users to access devices via spoken description, and lets you control your Mac using gestures, keyboard or braille display
  • Lynx browser, a free text-only web browser for blind users with refreshable Braille displays

  • Links browser, a free text-only web browser for visual users with low bandwidth
  • Opera browser, a visual browser with many accessibility-related features, including text zooming, user stylesheets, image toggle. A free downloadable version is available. Compatible with Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and several other operating systems. Reporting accessibility problems with this website

Reporting accessibility problems with this website

We’re always looking to improve the accessibility of this website. If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, please contact web@opfs.org.uk.

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Covering your tracks

You may not want other people to know that you’ve been searching for information or help from OPFS.

When browsing the internet whether on a mobile phone, tablet or computer, you leave a ‘history’ trail of pages and sites you’ve visited.

It’s impossible to completely avoid being tracked online but if you’re worried about someone knowing which sites you’ve been looking at, there are some things you can do to help cover your tracks.

If you’re using a laptop or desktop computer, try keeping another document or website open in a new tab or window while browsing. If someone comes in the room and you don’t want them to see what you’re looking at, you can quickly switch to another window or tab.

Deleting browsing history

You can delete the history of websites you’ve visited, but it’s important to know that if you delete your browsing history, someone else using the same device may notice.

If you share a tablet, mobile phone, laptop or computer with someone, they might notice that passwords or website addresses have disappeared from their history.

Find out how to remove your browsing history and other data from some of the most commonly used browsers:

Browsing in Private mode (incognito)

When browsing ‘incognito’, the internet browser won’t store cookies or record your browsing history on the computer, mobile or tablet.

This option is available on popular web browsers i.e. -

Toolbars

If you use a search toolbar in your web browser, remember that your searched items can be saved as part of your history. Find out how to delete your searched items from the following search engines: