Hartlepool Credit Union's Accessibility Policy
The Hartlepool Credit Union website has been built with the intention of making the content accessible to the widest range of visitors, regardless of disability or impairment. This has been achieved by adhering to best practices, such as compliance with W3C standards.
This accessibility statement records the main steps that have taken to accommodate the needs of disabled people.
Access Keys
Some browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site. On Windows, you can press the ‘alt’ key and the access key, followed by the 'enter' key; on Macintosh, you can press the ‘ctrl’ key and the access key.
Please note: access keys are only supported in Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 and above and Netscape 6.x versions.
The pages on this website adhere to the recommended UK Government access keys standard:
S - Skip navigation
1 - Home page
6 - Contact Us
8 - Terms and conditions / Disclaimer
0 - Access key details
Standards compliance
The pages on this website were built in 2007 to comply with a minimum standard of WCAG A, complying with all priority 1 and 2 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. The pages on this site were tested using the online W3C WAI Validation Service. Where test results have indicated either a warning or a failure to comply with standards these issues have been addressed, and decisions made individually.
All pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict.
All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. H1 tags are used for main titles, H2, H3 and H4 tags for subtitles.
Navigation aids
All pages contain a link to the home page, and the menu system has been constructed in a consistent manner throughout the entire website. An additional breadcrumb navigation system and selective quick links boxes are designed to reinforce awareness of the location of the page that is being viewed within the website, and to increase overall access to all of the information that is available.
Links
All links have title attributes, which describe the link in greater detail. All external links are identified as such in their respective title attributes.
Images
All content images used in this website include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes. Complex images include LONGDESC attributes or inline descriptions to explain the significance of each image to non-visual readers.
Visual design layout
This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout. If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.
Issues regarding assessibility
If you experience any assessibility issues whilst using this website, we would like to appologies, every effort has been made to ensure wide spread assessibility. Please contact us with details of your assessibility issues and we will endeaver to address them.
