Accessibility

Standards compliance

The following information covers how this site meets standards of accessibility, however, this does not mean that our commitment to being accessible ends here. If you have any issues at all using our site, please contact knowledge@cii.co.uk and we will do everything we can to assist you.

All pages on this site are WCAG A approved, complying with priority A guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. This is a judgement call; many guidelines are intentionally vague and cannot be tested automatically. The guidelines have been reviewed it is believed that all these pages are in compliance.

All pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict. This is not a judgement call; a program can determine with 100% accuracy whether a page is valid XHTML. For example, check the home page for XHTML validity.

All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. H1 tags are used for main titles, H2 tags for subtitles. For example, on this page, JAWS users can skip to the next section within the accessibility statement by pressing ALT+INSERT+2.

Navigation aids

All pages have relative home links to aid navigation in text-only browsers. Skip navigation links are also provided.

Links

Many links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target (such as the headline of an article).

Links are written to make sense out of context.

Images

All content images used in this site 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 aids

This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.

This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified “text size” option in visual browsers
If your browser or browsing device does not support style sheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.

JavaScript

An alternative is provided for non JavaScript supporting browsers.

Accessibility references

W3 accessibility guidelines can be viewed at http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20 and explains the reasons behind each guideline.

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Latest resources

Knowledge Services has moved...

May, 2012

We have moved to http://www.cii.co.uk/knowledge/

CII Thinkpiece 75: Converging Ideas: Building a European-Wide Supervisory Culture in Insurance and Pensions

May, 2012

Gabriel Bernadino, Chair of the new European Insurance & Occupational Pensions Authority provides a perspective on the pan-EU supervisor’s first year of operation.

CII Thinkpiece 74: From Brussels with Love: A Perspective on Developing Insurance Regulation at the EU Level

May, 2012

Karel van Hulle, the European Commission’s lead official on insurance & occupational pensions, offers his own strictly personal view of insurance regulation in the post-financial crisis world.