Bank Safe Online

Accessibility

Bank Safe Online' website has been designed to be accessible to all web users, irrespective of individual abilities and browser type.

This statement gives information about accessibility features, and levels of conformance to industry standards.

Access Keys

Access keys are keyboard shortcuts that provide links to important areas of the site. Windows users can press ALT + an access key, followed by RETURN for those using Microsoft Internet Explorer. Apple Macintosh users can press CONTROL + an access key.

This website uses the following UK Government standard access keys:

• Access key s - Skip to content
• Access key 1 - Home page
• Access key 3 - Site map
• Access key 4 - Search
• Access key 8 - Terms and Conditions
• Access key 0 - Accessibility statement

The following additional access keys are also available:

• Access key n - Skip to navigation
• Access key a - About Bank Safe Online

Text Resizing

This website allows you to resize text in the main content area of the page. Two buttons are provided in the footer of the page to increase or decrease text size. This feature requires that you have JavaScript turned on in your browser preferences.

Additionally, some web browsers provide the ability to switch between alternative style sheets. There are five text size settings that can be set by using this feature: Default, Small, Large, Larger and Largest. These settings range from 9 pixels to 20 pixels in height.

Standards compliance

All pages on this site conform to the following standards where possible:

• W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Single A. All pages on the site have been reviewed and comply with all priority 1 guidelines to the best of our knowledge.
• XHTML 1.0 Transitional. All pages on the site have been validated against the XHTML 1.0 Recommendation.
• CSS. All style sheets have been validated using the W3C CSS Validation Service