Designed with Accessibility in mind

Saffron Building Society has made a commitment to make this website accessible.

This site conforms to Level AA compliance as articulated by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, including all Priority 1 and Priority 2 and some Priority 3 checkpoints as defined in the Guidelines.

We are committed to making our site more accessible and support the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). We will make reasonable efforts to repair any actual inaccessibility anywhere on the site if reported by a visitor.

Access keys

Saffron Building Society website incorporates ACCESSKEY functionality. These keys can be used to navigate the site quickly and easily. Simply hold down Alt, then press the corresponding number, release and then press return. The ACCESSKEY functionality used on this site is as follows:

Alt + H - Homepage
Alt + M - Mortgages
Alt + S - Savings
Alt + V - Investments
Alt + L - Loans
Alt + I - Insurance
Alt + N - Intermediaries
Alt + C - Contact us
Alt + U - About us
Alt + B - Members
Alt + R - Media room
Alt + A - Careers
Alt + E - Accessibility
Alt + P - Sitemap
Alt + T - Terms and Conditions of the site

The above ACCESSKEYs are also indicated in the main menus, by having the access key underlined.

Links

Many links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target.

Whever possible, links are written to make sense out of context. Many browsers (such as JAWS, Home Page Reader, Lynx, and Opera) can extract the list of links on a page and allow the user to browse the list, separately from the page.

Link text is never duplicated; two links with the same link text always point to the same address.

There are no "javascript:" pseudo-links. Most links can be followed in any browser, even if scripting is turned off.

There are no links that open new windows without warning. The exception to this is when one is opening a PDF file. This will start acrobat reader in order to view the chosen file

Images

All content images used in the home page and all archives include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.

Visual design

This site and all its archives use cascading style sheets for visual layout.

Internet Explorer has a limited text resizing feature ("View" menu, "Text Size"), but it only works with relative font sizes. A special stylesheet that uses relative font sizes is automatically served to visitors using Internet Explorer.

If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.

Acronyms and abbreviations

Due to its technical nature, this site makes use of many acronyms and abbreviations, which are defined in each instance with the appropriate HTML tag.

Designed using web standards

In designing this site, we have used technologies that form a common standard. By designing to what are known as 'web standards', the content of this web site is made available to a wider range of people and technologies.

Our printed leaflets and publications

We treat all our members as individuals and understand that our standard printed brochures do not suit all. If you would like any or our documents supplied in large print, audio or Braille, please download and print our alternative literature request form, or contact our head office on 01799 522211 who will be pleased to help you.

Technical information about this site

This site has been developed using modern, web-standards technologies including XHTML and CSS. Using these technologies means that this site is built to last well into the future as well as making the content available to very old browsers and other alternative browsing devices such as screen-readers and refreshable Braille displays for people who are blind. Using CSS for styling and laying out the site content also means that the site downloads faster than many older sites, even for those people using slower dial-up modems.

Compatible with a wide range of browsers

The site has been designed to work in all modern web browsers (layout may not be 100% the same due to various browser rendering issues, but it will still be usable where different) and has been tested using: