Express Accessibility Statement
Express Insurance is committed to making this website
accessible and usable for all,
regardless of the users' visual, hearing, cognitive or
motor/physical impairments. This website has been designed
to meet, and where possible, far exceed basic accessibility
requirements.
The commitment to maintain the website's accessibility
accordance levels will be honoured, by performing a periodic
website review, to ensure accordance levels.
We are always happy to hear your views, and
suggestions. If you have any feedback regarding
this website please feel free to contact us.
Please note: although we continue to test and
modify the website for accessibility, there may be links to pages
developed by third parties that are not compliant with our
standards.
Cascading style sheets
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) have been used to separate the site
content, from the styling CSS markup. These separate CSS style
sheets contain structural, layout and positioning information, in
addition to font, colour and other content styling information for
the entire website.
Separating style from content provides unrestricted access to the
web page content. This is essential for easy access to the site
content and aids content interpretation by Assistive Technologies
(AT) (e.g. a screen reader used by the blind or partially
sighted).
CSS also reduces the size of the HTML files. The CSS file is
downloaded just once by the visitor's browser and re-used for
different pages on a web site. This reduces the bandwidth
requirements for your server and also ensures a faster download for
your visitors.
Navigation
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
Images
All content images used on this site include descriptive
alternative text, which appears if the image is unable to be
displayed.
Image replacement text
Where graphics are used as buttons; alternative HTML text has
been used. These will become visible:
- If images are disabled
- If CSS is disabled
- If both images and CSS is disabled
Text contrast
We have checked the site's font and background colour
combination against the different colour blindness conditions and
ensured that all information is still clear.
Printing from this website
We have set this site up so that if you are using a modern
browser, when you print a page the printout will not include the
menus or sidebars. If the page title and address don't appear on
your printout, you can set your browser to add them. This is
usually done by choosing 'Page Setup' from the 'File' menu, or you
can check your browser's 'Help' menu to find out how to do
this.
Keyboard navigation
In the absence of a mouse, this website has been designed to
provide easy access via the use of solely a keyboard. Access keys
have been provided for the main navigation menu items, so that
users can navigate to all of the main landing pages. The tab key
can also be used to move through all of the links of a page, and
through all of the fields of a page containing a form. These forms
have been designed to aid accessibility by having the form
questions presented in a logical and consistent order.
Graceful degregation
This website has been designed to gracefully degradate, meaning
that the site is still accessible if scripting is disabled, mainly
javascript.
If JavaScript is not available or voluntarily turned off, it is
still possible to navigate the website, even with any reduced
functionality that may occur.
Browser support
We have made every effort to make this site usable for as many
different web browsers as possible. Unfortunately, older browsers
are not able to take advantage of current technology, and so the
site does not look as 'designed' as it does in modern browsers,
although all the information should be accessible. We would
encourage all users, if at all possible, to update their browser to
the latest version - not only for this site, but to enhance your
use of the web in general.
UK legislation
Through taking this approach we hope to make our site as
inclusive as possible, and also to comply with UK legislation
including the Disability Discrimination Act (1995) as amended by
the Special Education Needs and Disability Act (2001), which states
that it is an offence to discriminate against a disabled person by
treating him or her less favourably than others for a reason
relating to their disability.