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This website has been designed for maximum accessibility and ease of use
Text size
You can select to view this site in a bigger or smaller font size.
There are several ways to do this:
- Click on one of the three 'A'-buttons at the top of a page.
- Make use of acces keys.
- You click in the toolbar of your browser on “view” and then “text size” and you select the size that suits you best.
- Alternatively, if you have a mouse with a scroll wheel you can enlarge or diminish the font by pressing and holding the “control” button on your keyboard and moving the wheel.
Access Keys
Most web browsers go directly to specific links when certain combinations of keys are pressed (access keys).
For Windows, this is done by pressing Alt+access key (for Internet Explorer the Enter key must be pressed as well). For Macintosh, this is done by pressing Ctrl+access key.
In the overview below you can find all acces keys:
Access Key | Destination |
|---|---|
| S | Skip to content |
| h | Home page |
| c | Contact form |
| m | Sitemap |
| ? | Help section |
| g | Glossary of Terms |
| l | Switch language |
| - | Change textsize to small (default) |
| * | Change textsize to medium |
| + | Change textsize to large |
| / | Change contrast |
| 1 | About Us section |
| 2 | Investor Relations section |
| 3 | News Room section |
| 4 | Corporate Governance section |
| 5 | Corporate Sustainability section |
| 6 | Career section |
Compliance with Standards
All of the pages comply with the Accessibility Guidelines or General Principles of Accessible Design laid down by the WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative) Working Group of the W3C.
Specifically, this website conforms to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, Level Double-A.
All of the pages have been created in accordance with the W3C's XHTML 1.0 Recommendation for web development, with a semantic and structured markup.
The presentation layer has been created in accordance with the W3C Recommendation on Cascade Style Sheets, Level 2 (CSS2).
To learn about how these standards affect the accessibility of a website, see Dive Into Accessibility, an excellent resource that uses examples to explain how these directives make it easier for users with disabilities to navigate the Internet.
Navigation Assistance
All of the pages contain links rel=previous, next, and start to assist navigation when using text-only browsers and screen readers.
Some browsers such as Mozilla, Netscape 6 and Opera 7 display an additional toolbar for navigating the site using these links.
All of the tables have headers with scope attributes allowing screen readers to present the information intelligently. When necessary, the tables also have titles (caption elements) and summary attributes, to make them easier to understand.
Links
Most of the links whose text does not fully describe the destination have title attributes with an explanation.
Whenever possible, links are written in such a way that they make sense out of context. Some web browsers (such as JAWS, Home Page Reader, Lynx, and Opera) can extract the list of links from the current page and let users navigate the site using the list. Links are not duplicated; if they are, it is because they link to the same content.
There are no JavaScript pseudo-links. All of the links can be followed using any web browser, even if JavaScript is disabled.
The internal links do not open in a new window. External links do open in a new window, and are framed as follows:
Visual Design
The website's visual design has been created using Cascading Style Sheets CSS. Thanks to its structural markup, the site content is fully legible even for web browsers or browsing devices that do not support style sheets.
Thus, the site works well on PDAs and mobile devices, without the need for extra work or preprocessing.
Safer browsers
The team behind this website wanted you to know that there are several other options than Internet Explorer. Read what the New York Times, USA Today and The Inquirer say about switching to a safer browser at BrowseHappy.com.
