Site accessibility
Legal & General have built this site to be accessible and usable to as many people as possible.
This site complies with all priority 1 and 2 checkpoints of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). We have also included as many priority 3 checkpoints as possible.
Whilst we appreciate that it is not possible to create a site that is accessible to absolutely everyone, we have included accessibility checks in every step of our design and build process to ensure it is as accessible as possible.
If you have any specific problems with accessing content on this site, please email us using the following address: wsm.team@landg.com
All pages on this site validate to XHTML 1.0 Strict. All pages have been validated using the W3C online validation tool: http://validator.w3.org/.
Headlines
The site makes use of a flash replacement method which replaces some text headlines with small flash movies containing the same headline styled in the Legal & General corporate font. This is reliant on both JavaScript and Flash being present on a user's browser, if either of these technologies is not present then the normal text headline will remain.
The flash movies will use the font settings of the browser at the time of loading. If however the font-size is changed by the user, the page will need to be reloaded for the flash movies to be updated with the new font size.
Access keys
Access keys have been included on this site to aid navigation. All pages on the site use the following access keys:
- 1 - Home
- 2 - Skip to content
- 3 - Skip to sub-navigation
- 4 - Skip to more information
- 5 - Skip to main navigation
- 6 - Initial form field (application pages only)
- 7 - Search field
- 8 - Sitemap
- 9 - Contact us
- 0 - Accessibility
To initiate these access keys in the Windows Operating system you can usually press ALT+ access key. On a Macintosh it is usually CONTROL + access key.
Useful resources
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10
- HTML validator: http://validator.w3.org
