Accessibility statement for Dental Training Information System (DTIS)

This accessibility statement applies to the DTIS (https://nes-dtis.azurewebsites.net/) application.

This application is run by NHS Education for Scotland. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this application. For example, that means you should be able to:

• change colours, contrast levels and fonts
• zoom in up to 300% without the text spilling off the screen
• navigate most of the application using just a keyboard
• navigate most of the application using speech recognition software
• listen to most of the application using a screen reader (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)

We’ve also made the application text as simple as possible to understand.

AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability.

How accessible this application is

Parts of this application are not fully accessible. For example:

• interactive controls are nested inside other interactive elements, which can cause problems for keyboard and screen reader users.
• heading elements are empty or missing, which can make navigation difficult for screen reader users.
• the application does not contain a main landmark or level-one heading to help identify the main content.
• page content is not contained within landmark regions, which can make it harder to navigate using assistive technologies.

Feedback and contact information

We’re always looking to improve the accessibility of this application.

If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, please contact us at: support.web@nes.scot.nhs.uk

Please include details of the problem that you have encountered.

Enforcement procedure

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’).

If you’re not happy with how we respond to your complaint, contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS).

Technical information about this application’s accessibility

Compliance status

Non-accessible content

The content is non-accessible for the following reasons:

• interactive controls are nested within other interactive elements. This fails WCAG 2.1 Success Criterion 4.1.2 – Name, Role, Value and 2.1.1 – Keyboard.
• heading elements are missing or empty. This fails WCAG 2.1 Success Criterion 1.3.1 – Info and Relationships.
• the page does not include a <main> landmark or a level one heading. This fails WCAG 2.1 Success Criterion 1.3.1 – Info and Relationships.
• content is not contained within landmark regions. This fails WCAG 2.1 Success Criterion 1.3.1 – Info and Relationships and 2.4.1 – Bypass Blocks.

Content that’s not within the scope of the accessibility regulations

PDFs and other documents

The accessibility regulations do not require us to fix PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018 if they’re not essential to providing our services.

Any new PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards.

What we are doing to improve accessibility

We have assessed this application and determined that fixing the identified accessibility issues would be a disproportionate burden because of the following:

• DTIS will not be updated to address these specific issues, as the application is planned to move to the new Turas design system in the future
• the application has been built with old technology and limited developer resource to fix any issues at this moment in time
• the new design system will improve accessibility across Turas applications and ensure better alignment with the WCAG 2.2 standard

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared on 3 November 2025.

It was last reviewed on 3 November 2025.

This application was last tested on 3 November 2025 against the WCAG 2.2 AA standard.
The audit was carried out by a member of the NHS Education for Scotland digital team.

All pages in the application were tested using the following:

• AXE automated testing tool (version 4.10.3)
• Chrome, Firefox and Edge browsers
• keyboard navigation