Accessibility

An accessible website allows users to navigate freely and view content without creating barriers. This means that information has to be easy to reach and available to as many visitors as possible. To ensure that these challenges are met, the website must assume that there's no standard user or browsing device.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is responsible for enforcing the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018 (the 'accessibility regulations').

Equality and Human Rights Commission (external website)

Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018 (legislation.gov.uk)

If you're unhappy with how we respond to your complaint contact the Equality and Advisory Service.

Equality and Advisory Service (external website)

This accessibility statement applies to the Scottish Forestry website at www.forestry.gov.scot.

We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. 

That means you should be able to:

• zoom in up to 300% without the text spilling off the screen
• navigate most of the website using just a keyboard
• listen to most of the website using a screen reader (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)

We’ve also made the website text as simple as possible to understand, working to readability levels in line with the Digital Scotland Service Standard.

Digital Scotland Service Standard (Scottish Government website)
 

We're committed to making this website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

This website was last tested in 2024. The test was carried out by our the digial agency we partner with.

Testing was conducted by selecting a representative sample of pages within www.forestry.gov.scot. This included:

• the homepage
• other key landing pages
• standard content pages
• general site search results
• news, blogs and stories
• site function - like our contact form and page feedback function
   

PDFs and other documents

Accessibility regulations do not require us to fix PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018.

However, for those documents which are classed as 'active administration documents' and are essential to providing our services, we'll review these from September 2025.

We plan to fix our documents by replacing the document with an accessible HTML page or ensuring that, if the document is to remain as is, that it meets digital accessibility standards.

In the meantime, use our contact form and let us know if you experience any difficulties with a document on our website.

Report a problem with a document

Live video

We do not plan to add captions to live video streams because live video is exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations. 

Use our contact form and let us know if you need information on this website translated.

Request a translation

We're always looking to improve the accessibility of this website.

Use our contact form and let us know if:

• you find any problems not listed on this page
• you think we're not meeting accessibility requirements

Report a problem with the website

Contact us via Contact Scotland if you're a deaf British Sign Language (BLS) user.

Contact Scotland BSL (external website)

User our contact form and let us know if you need a BSL interpreter.

Request a BSL interpreter

This statement was last reviewed on 27th August 2025.