Accessibility

The nature of Web is its universality. He must be accessible to all the disabled persons. Crédit Agricole S.A. involves in this step citizen and makes a commitment to provide you with an accessible site and in compliance with the level A Simple international standards of accessibility WCAG 2.0.

Policy of accessibility

This website is accessible. This means that any Internet user can access its content without difficulty, including users with handicaps that require special web browsers or technical aids.

For example, the site content is compatible with navigation tools such as text-to-speech and Braille displays, used by blind Internet users. Visually impaired users may adjust the site display to meet their needs (changing font size, colors, and contrast), and users who have lost the use of their hands may navigate without a mouse.

Compatibility with the browsers

This site is compatible with all the recent browsers supporting(bearing) HTML 4.01 and CSS 2 and respects the vocabulary and the grammar XHTML and CSS recommended by the W3C. In consequent this site will offer the best of itself with the browsers of the last generations while remaining accessible(approachable) to the browsers oldest. The use of the following browsers is recommended:

• Mac.OS.X (Macintosh operating system 10): Opera, Safari, Mozilla Firefox
• Windows: Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer 6, HPR (Home Page Reader) 3.0
• Linux: Mozilla Firefox, Opera  

Principles of browsing

You will find on all the pages of the site the following elements of browsing:

• the logo Crédit Agricole allows to return to the homepage from the internal pages of the site
• the main menu contains the links of access to the main contents structured and ranked in columns
• the internal menu wants appropriate for every column or page interns of the site
• the Ariadne’s thread allows to know on which page you are and to cross quickly at the level of browsing superior. It is present in the internal pages, just after the main menu.
• the links of fast access (menu head teacher(main clause), secondary menu, go to the contents, the footer), useful in particular for the visually handicapped persons, allow to access directly the corresponding editorial zone of every page
• the search engine, present in intoxicates it of every page, allows to make a global search in all the site. The result of a search lists the pages of the site found corresponding to the searched criteria.
• the priority links at the bottom of page: site map, Contact, RSS, Legal notices, Credits, Accessibility, Spaces out Suppliers.
• the site map allows to obtain a global representation of all the columns and the sub-sections of the site. It is available at the foot of every page below the priority links.
• the browsing in the keyboard: use arrows “high” and “in the” “bottom” (“stocking", “{bottoms”, “{stockings”) to move the elevator, the tabulation to navigate of link in link and the touch "Entry to follow an active link

Size of the characters

The small fonts can return the reading on difficult Internet for certain users. This site suggests you enlarging or reducing easily the size of the text thanks to buttons “In+” and “In” presents in intoxicates it of the editorial zone of every page. If you are equipped with a mouse with thumb wheel, most of the browsers also allow to enlarge or to reduce the size of the text by combining(organizing) the thumb wheel with a touch of the keyboard:

• Windows: Ctrl + thumb wheel of the mouse
• Mac: apple + thumb wheel of the mouse

Print

To print a page, go to the menu bar at the top of your browser then choose File > Print. Or simultaneously press Ctrl + P on your keyboard if you are using a PC or Cmd + P if you're using a Mac.

Documents PDF to be downloaded

You can find on this site of the downloadable documents in the size PDF; certain document PDF was the object of a particular processing(treatment) so that they are accessible(approachable) to the visually handicapped persons. For the reading of documents PDF, you can download Acrobat Reader.

Or then, you can transform the PDF into classic HTML format by using the engine of on-line conversion of Adobe; for it copy the address of the link towards the file in PDF and stick in the field planned for that purpose via the tool of on-line conversion of Adobe.

Reading of the media in the format flash

Someone contents are available on the format Flash. Their consultation requires the download and the setting of a plug – in free of charge on Internet at the following address: Plug-in Adobe-Macromedia Flash.

For the users of readers of screen, a browsing without plugin Flash is recommended. Here is how to deactivate Flash under Internet Explorer

• Go in “Tools > Internet Options”
• Select the tab “Programmes”, then go “to Run the complementary modules”
• In the list, choose “Shockwave Flash Object” and deactivate him
• Validate the whole and consult the site by having access to the alternatives of the media Flash