Accessibility

Introduction

The PPF is committed to meeting the requirements of the Equality Act 2010. Our on-ongoing endeavour is to help make the site as open and available as possible to everyone.

As part of our commitment this website has been built along internationally recognised accessibility guidelines produced by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Wherever possible we have captioned all non-textual content with ALT tags and provided an HTML version of content on this website. This site also uses 'portable document format' (.pdf) files on our booklets page. In order to view our booklets you might need Adobe Acrobat Reader software depending on the browser you are using. This software is included on many systems but if it is not on yours you can download it for free.

Navigation

We’ve made sure that the different pages on our website are easy to locate and identify. This includes navigation menus, links, and text sections which are predictably and consistently located across the site.

Browser Customisation

Browser customisation is a way of adjusting content on the web to make it more accessible for you. If you navigate to the tools or settings options in your browser you should be able to do the following:

• Adjust text size
• Prevent graphics and images from appearing
• Change the colour of links displayed

Text Size

You can change the text size to make it either larger or smaller via your browser settings. Some browsers will allow you to magnify the whole page. You can also adjust text size by pressing down the ctrl button and using the + and – keys on your keyboard to increase or decrease screen size.

Text to Speech

Many computers and mobile devices today have built in text-to-speech software. We have made every effort to code content on the website properly, for example by including alt tags, so that all of the functionality of text-to-speech software used by screen readers works well on this website.

Keyboard Input

Many people rely on the keyboard to interact with the Web, so we’ve made sure that this website offers keyboard access to all functionality, including form controls, input, and other user interface components.

If you have ideas about how we can make this website more accessible please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

How accessible our online services are

• images not having alternative text
• heading elements are structured differently/incorrectly
• form labels not associated with their input elements
• mandatory form fields not being identified clearly enough
• components on some pages are not accessible via keyboard only
• poor colour contrast on headers and while hovering over links
• links not having meaningful text (e.g. ‘Click Here’)
• controls not having an obvious role and state

What to do if you cannot access parts of our online services

Please contact us should you need information located on our websites in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille.

Reporting accessibility problems
If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, please let us know.

Technical information about our online services and accessibility
The Pension Protection Fund is committed to making its online services accessible. Our websites are partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard. Listed below are areas that require improvement and when we plan to rectify them.

Non compliance with the accessibility regulations

Content that’s not within the scope of the accessibility regulations

We're currently running an accessibility audit on the forms and PDFs that are downloadable from the site and will publish the results as soon as possible.

How we tested this website

We last checked our sites in July 2023. 

What we’re doing to improve accessibility

We’re continually reviewing and improving accessibility on our site. If you are having problems viewing any part of the site please contact us.