Accessibility statement

PricewaterhouseCoopers is committed to making its online presence as accessible as possible to all audiences as part of its corporate social responsibilities and to meet the requirements of territory legislation.

As a result, PwC is adopting guidelines set out in World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). The key constituencies for the guidelines are for users who experience:

• Blindness
• Low vision
• Colour-blindness
• Motor disability
• Cognitive or intellectual disability

A number of browsers are available to navigate websites, such as screen readers and braille writers, but can only function if websites are built accordingly. However, we also support the W3C's commitment to lead the web to its full potential for all users.

It is our intention that the PwC online activities follow the standards set by the W3C guidelines where possible. To this end we have introduced the following accessible features:

Access keys
Access keys are keyboard shortcuts which provide jumps to specific links which for this site are as follows:

• 0 - Accessibility statement & access key information
• 1 - Home page
• 2 - Skip navigation
• 9 - Contact Us

Using access keys depends on your operating system and the type and version of your browser as follows:

PC running Windows using Internet Explorer v5+:
Press and hold the ALT key, press the Access Key and then press ENTER

PC running Windows using Internet Explorer v4.x:
Press and hold the ALT key, press the Access Key of your choice

PC running Windows using Netscape v6+ or Mozilla Firefox:
Press and hold the ALT key, then press the Access Key of your choice

Macintosh computer using Internet Explorer v5+:
Press and hold Control and then press the Access Key

Macintosh computer using Mozilla Firefox:
Press and hold Control and then press the Access Key

Colour
Colour combinations have been tested for colour blindness as well as to provide the highest possible contrast , within the bounds of PwC's brand colour palette.

Images
Content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics and those that do not portray information include null ALT attributes.

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).

Style sheets
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 stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.

Internet Explorer:
You can change font and colour settings or select your own style sheet by selecting Tools > Internet Options > Accessibility

• Then select any of the three checkboxes in order to ignore page colours, font styles or font sizes.
• Or select the checkbox 'Format document using my style sheet' to browse to your own local style sheet, then click OK.

Netscape:
You can change your font and colour settings by selecting Edit > Preferences > Appearance

Mozilla Firefox:
You can change your font and colour settings by selecting Tools > Options > Fonts & Colours

Scripting
While JavaScript is used within this environment for a number of function elements, where possible alternatives have been provided, however, all pages are still accessible if JavaScript support is not available.

Standards compliance
All markup and style attributes of the this web site adhere to the W3C's XHTML 1.0 and CSS level 1 specifications. In providing all web pages in a well-formed and syntactically correct manner we are able to support a wider range of current and backwardly compatible browsing devices.

Comments and suggestions:
If you have any comments or suggestions on web accessibility issues relating to the this site, please contact us.