Using our website

Samsung recognise the importance of providing a website that is accessible to all users. So we have made every effort to ensure that our site can be used easily by people with disabilities. The site uses features operable on screenreader software and computer screens.

Accessibility

The Samsung website complies with Conformance Level 'A' of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

Accessibility features

We have introduced the following features to ensure the best use of our site by all of our visitors.

Access keys

Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site.

Windows users: press ALT + an access key.

Macintosh users:press Control + an access key

All pages utilise the following access keys:

s - Jump to main site navigation page
1 - Jump to main page content
2 - Jump to Sitemap
3 - Jump to Site search
4 - Jump to Footer links

Navigation

A hidden menu has been placed at the beginning of each page to allow screen reader users to link to the main areas of the page.

Headings and navigation menus

HTML heading tags are used to convey document structure. H1 tags are used for main titles, H2 tags for subtitles etc.

Navigation menus are marked up as HTML lists. This ensures that the number of links in the list is read out at the start and it can be skipped easily.

All images have title text for screenreaders, browsers which don't display images or browsers set not to display images.

All links have tool-tips. Accessibility keys have been included to aid accessibility (see above). Where a link opens an additional browser window, this is made explicit.

All labelling aims to make sense, when out of context with its surrounding content.

Colours

We have taken care to ensure that the site's font and background colour combinations contrast significantly and are effective in ensuring information is still clear when viewed in different colour combinations.

If you wish to override the site's colours, you can do this by changing your browser settings to your own preference.

Font size

Most of the font sizes we use on our site are sizable, so you can change the font size to make it either larger or smaller via your browser settings. For example:

Internet Explorer users

Select View, then Text Size, and then your preferred size.

Firefox users

Select View, then Text Size, and then increase or decrease to your preferred size.

Stylesheets

This site uses cascading style sheets for all visual layout. If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the use of structured semantic mark-up ensures that the content of each page is still readable and clearly structured.

You can apply your own stylesheet to this website by:

Internet Explorer users

Select Tools, then Internet Options, then Accessibility; next click on any or all 3 checkboxes to ignore colours, font styles or font sizes; in the same window you can change your style sheet by clicking the checkbox that says, 'format document using my style sheet' then browse to your style sheet and click OK.

Firefox users

Select Tools, then Options and then select General, where you can specify your own colours and fonts.

Flash

Where Flash animations are used within the site, every method has been used to make this content as accessible as possible. This includes a fix relating to the "click here to activate control" issue raised by a recent Microsoft Internet Explorer update (MS06-013). For more information, please refer to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/912812/

JavaScript

The use of JavaScript has been kept to a minimum. Where it is used, most content is still accessible if JavaScript is turned off.

Useful links

If you would like to know more about accessibility and the Internet, you may be interested in the following websites:

RNIB website - The Royal National Institute for the Blind W3C accessibility guidelines British Computer Association of the Blind BBC web pages specially constructed to improve clarity for visually impaired users. This website also includes other useful links The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA)

There are also some handy tools which you can purchase or download free, these include:

JAWS - a screen reader for use with Windows Lynx - a free text-only web browser for blind users with refreshable Braille displays Links - a free text-only web browser for visual users with low bandwidth