Accessibility

We’ve created our website to support our visually impaired customers. This means we adhere to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. This is a set of guidelines stipulated by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that's used to ensure web sites are designed and written in a way that makes them accessible to everyone. This means that:

• we only use strong colour contrasts 
• headings are used correctly to make them readable by screen readers
• links do what they say. We don't use 'click here' 
• tables are laid out with clearly defined headings and summaries 
• we use style sheets to determine the presentation of our website - this assists those using screen reading devices 
• where we use images, we use alternative text so that those people who cannot see the image can interpret it from the text. These can be read by screen reading devices.

• Internet Explorer 11
• Chrome (latest version)  
• Safari (9 and above)
• Firefox (latest version)

• Windows 8 and 10
• Mac OS X 10.9 and above

You can find out more from Microsoft about what to do if you're still running Windows 7 on your computer.

Updating your browser

Browser updates are available free of charge from each browser provider. Operating systems can be purchased from software vendors.

We will update our list of supported browsers and operating systems from time to time as the software used by our customers changes. 

Browser updates are available from Microsoft, Firefox, Safari and Google.

These details are correct as of January 2020.

When using online banking, a timeout message will appear before you are due to timeout. This is to warn you that your online banking session will end within 60 seconds unless you select 'Yes'.

Please note that this warning message will not appear if pop-ups are blocked. To ensure you receive this warning, please check your browser settings to make sure pop-ups are not blocked. 

We provide a variety of resources to assist our customers with mobility and dexterity issues, whether they are banking in branch or from the comfort of their home.

All our branches except St George's offer level access and are wheelchair accessible, to make it as easy as possible to enter the branch.

We also provide ATMs island wide at different levels to make them as easy as possible to use.

Telephone banking can be really useful, whether you're checking your balance or making a payment. If you’ve got mobility issues, it also means you can do your banking, more easily - without having to visit a branch.

Find out more about Telephone banking

Online banking can be a really useful way of managing your account wherever and whenever works for you. 

You will need to use a Secure Key to log on to online banking. The larger version includes audio functionality that can be useful if you have difficulty seeing the buttons.

You can request these from us in branch or by calling the number on the back of your card.