Standard Chartered’s objective is to make our Wholesale Banking site as accessible and usable in practice as possible, incorporating features that improve navigation for screen readers, keyboard navigation and text-only browsers.
The site conforms with Level A of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines produced by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), as well as the UK 2004 Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) regarding website accessibility.
Features
- A search facility
- The layout of the site is designed to allow the text to be resizable but this depends also on scalable text being a feature of the browser used by visitors to the site
Site code
This site has been built to comply with standards (x)HTML and CSS2. The code has been checked for accessibility using a range of manual and automated checks. In older browsers (Netscape and Internet Explorer 4 and earlier) it will appear as an unstyled document. All information and functionality will still be accessible.
Optimal browser settings
We’ve designed the site for a screen resolution of 1024 x 768 with the font size set to either 100% or medium.
Images and Flash
We’ve tried to give all meaningful images descriptive ALT attributes to help screen readers. Some content requires Flash Player 8 or above. Alternative content is provided should you not have the correct player. It is free to download Adobe's Flash Player.