Accessibility
Accessibility Statement
Access For All
“The Co-operative Group aims to ensure that all our customers are able to access our goods and services. We recognise that everyone has different needs and we want to make accessing our goods and services easy for our customers.”
Martin Beaumont
Group Chief Executive
Here at Group Pensions Department we are working hard to ensure all our Members can access information about PACE. However, we recognise that not all of the features on this site are currently accessible to everyone. That is, you might find you have trouble when trying to use certain features with some types of adaptive technologies like screen readers. We are fully committed to ensuring every page on this site will meet guidelines for web accessibility and it is our intention to continue to work, on an ongoing basis, to further improve access for all Members.
Accessibility features
This site contains several useful accessibility features which are described below. The website is fully compliant to level AA of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.
The Pensions Calculator is available in a text-only format to provide users who cannot access the graphics version to work out their combined pension from the Former Scheme and PACE. The figures provided by the calculator can be altered by changing the variables and selecting the refresh option.
Navigation
There is one main navigation menu and screen reader users can “skip” these links by using “skipnav”.
Layout
Content is laid out using style sheets, which users can change in their browsers to suit individual requirements.
Text sizes
This site uses relative font sizes that are compatible with user specified font sizes in visual browsers. To change the font to a size you are comfortable with:
- in Internet Explorer (PC), select View, Text Size from the browser toolbar.
- in Netscape 6 or 7 or Internet Explorer (Mac), select View, Text Zoom from the browser toolbar.
Images
All content images on the site use descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative images include “null” ALT attributes.
Feedback
If you have any feedback on how the accessibility on this website can be improved please contact:
Email: cgpensions@co-op.co.uk
Address:
Group Pensions Department
PO Box 53
New Century House
Manchester
M60 4ES
Telephone: 0161 827 5105
