Navigation
There are 3 main navigation areas within the site, the Global navigation, which is located below the search box at the top of the page; the main navigation located in the red bar below the global navigation and the section navigation located on the left hand side of the page.

Layout
Text is laid out using style sheets. Users can change the style sheets in their browsers to make viewing easier for their individual requirements. To do this first go to the Tools menu for Internet Explorer. At the bottom of the Tools screen there is a Accessibility button. Clicking this will bring up the accessibility dialogue where you can turn off the styles of the webpage. Here you can also direct Internet Explorer to use a style sheet of your choice. HTML used is 4.01 transitional.

Text resizer
The Canada Life website incorporates Text Resizer functionality, which can be found at the top of every page. You will see two links with magnifying glasses beside them. The one on the left increases the font size in the main content area and the one on the right has the reverse effect.

Images
The Canada Life website uses alt tags on all images that have a descriptive element. Where images are non-descriptive alt tags are set to null.

Further Information
Supplementary information on these accessibility issues can be found at www.cast.org/bobby and the Web Accessibility Initiative www.w3c.org/WAI. Please note that clicking on the links or logos will open a new browser window.

PDFs
If you would like to read a PDF document with a screen reader please follow this link to the Access Adobe website.