Accessibility Statement

Resizing the text

To increase the text size:

Internet Explorer: View > Text size

Firefox: View > Text size

Opera: File > Preferences > Fonts > Minimum font size (pixels)

Alternatively, scroll with the wheel of your mouse whilst holding down the control key.

Firefox also allows you to adjust the text size via the keyboard:

For PC: [Ctrl] & [+] to Increase the size, [Ctrl] & [-] to Decrease the size and [Ctrl] & [)] to return the text to its Default size

For Mac:[Apple Key] & [+] to Increase the size, [Apple Key] & [-] to Decrease the size and [Apple Key] & [)] to return the text to its Default size

Standards compliance

This website aims to conform to:

W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2 priority 1

XHTML 1.03

CSS 2.04

If do you come across any coding errors of any kind please e-mail grant.martin@conventionedinburgh.com.

Design

For those using screen readers, you have the option to skip to the navigation

All pages are designed using CSS - no tables whatsoever have been used in the design of this website. However tables have been used to format tabular data in some parts of the site.

Structure and presentation have been completely separated - the HTML documents contain just the text that you see on the screen and some structural tags (for example, and are not used on this website)

All text is assigned a relative font size - this means that you can resize the text if you want to (see “Resizing the text”).

All informational images have been assigned descriptive ALT text and decorative images are either relegated to the CSS document or have a null ALT attribute.

We aim to make this website accessible to everyone. If you experience any kind of problem or have any feedback about it please email grant.martin@conventionedinburgh.com.

Browser compatibility

This website has been tested and proven to offer full functionality on Windows, Macintosh and Linux with:

• Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.2, 5.5, and 6.0
• Firefox 1.0.7, 1.5 and 2.0
• Opera 7.0 and 8.0
• Safari 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3
• Netscape 7.0 and 8.0
• Konqueror 3.0.5
• JAWS screen reader 6.0
• PDAs

Screen sizes ranging from 800px to 1600px in width

This website relies on CSS2, which is unsupported by IE 4 and below and Netscape 4 and below. It can still be accessed on these browsers but with no styling applied to the pages. The decision to use CSS2 was taken due to the very small number of Internet users browsing with these older versions (now less than 1%). We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

This website has limited CSS support for IE 5.5 & Below for the Windows based PCs.

This website has no CSS support for IE 5 & Below for the Apple Macintosh.

Privacy Statement

www.conventionedinburgh.com - Use Of Cookies

 The Edinburgh Convention Bureau's (ECB) website uses Google Analytics to help analyse how users use the site. This analytical tool uses 'cookies', which are text files placed on your computer, to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information in an anonymous form. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) is transmitted to Google. This information is then used to evaluate visitors use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity for the ECB.

The ECB will not (and will never allow any third party) to use this statistical analytics tool to track or to collect any personally identifiable information of visitors to our site. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source as part of our use of the Google statistical analytics tool. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Neither the ECB nor Google will link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a computer user.

 

Disabling and enabling cookies

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings on your web browser.  For the latest information on how to do so please contact the vendor of your chosen web browser or consult the applications help file.

 

If you are using Microsoft Windows you can delete cookies folllowing these steps:

    1. open ‘Windows Explorer';

    2. click on the ‘Search’ button on the tool bar;

    3. type ‘cookie’ into the search box for ‘Folders and files’;

    4. select ‘My computer’ in the ’Look in’ box;

    5. click ‘Search now’;

    6. double click on the folders that are found;

    7. select any cookie file; and then

    8. use the ‘Delete’ button on your keyboard to remove any cookies.

 

Please Note: This privacy policy does not cover any destination websites that this website may link to. 

The ECB Websites are www.conventionedinburgh.com & www.meetingedinburgh.com