Website Accessibility
We want our website to be accessible for all visitors. The information here will help you make changes to your computer to make browsing easier.
If you have difficulty in reading the Pension Corporation website on your screen, there are many changes you can make to your computer to make browsing the internet a better experience. If you want to alter the way you see, hear or use a website, you can change options in your internet browser.
Zoom in / out
With any modern standards compliant web browser it is possible to "zoom in":
- MAC – Hold down "Apple" key and press "+" or "-" key to increase zoom leve
- PC – Hold down "CTRL" key and press "+" or "-" key to increase/decrease zoom level
My Web My Way
The BBC and AbilityNet have developed a website called My Web My Way. It has comprehensive and up-to-date information on changing your browser settings for Windows, Mac and Linux users.
Click here to visit My Web My Way
If you use a screen reader
Not everyone uses a traditional browser. Because of this we have designed our site to work with screen readers. We use text (in ALT tags) to describe images. We also use descriptive links (eg More about mortgages instead of Click here) so you know where the link takes you, and we don't use frames or tables (apart from any tabular data) which are difficult for screen readers to interpret.
Our technical considerations
The following is a list of the technical points that we have taken into account for accessibility benefits when building this website;
- The website is valid XHTML Strict
- Clean table-less code
- Jump links are available to "skip to content"
- At go-live, all images have ALT text
- Forms use "tabindex", users can tab through form fields
- While the website uses extensive JavaScript, it remains completely accessible should the user not have without JavaScript
- Flash is not required for anything other than videos + podcasts
