Accessibility Statement

SaskTel is committed to be accessible to customers with Special Needs. As part of this commitment, we offer  products and services for customers with hearing, speech, visual, motion and other physical limitations.

In consultation with Further Ahead, a web accessibility specialist, SaskTel has worked to improve sasktel.com by examining its level of accessibility and identifying improvements that can be made in recognition of the needs of persons with physical limitations. Additionally, we are committed to staying informed about the telecommunications challenges faced by persons with physical limitations in order to better understand their needs and to design practical solutions for those needs.

sasktel.com - SaskTel is dedicated to making its Web content on sasktel.com accessible to as broad a user base as possible. For example, the sasktel.com website is accessible to those who may not be able to use a mouse since Sasktel.com can be navigated using the keyboard on your computer or using other assistive devices. Sasktel.com also offers these accessibility features:

• ALT tag detail for images.
• Clear information regarding the purpose of a link.
• Consistent headings  throughout the website to aid in page comprehension.
• Association of forms with labels.
• Association of all data cells in a data table with their headers.
• Cascading style sheets will be offered to enhance the appearance and functionality of the site. Where these technologies are not available, alternative content is provided.
• World Wide Web Consortium - The World Wide Web Consortium Web Accessibility Initiative (W3C WAI) provides guidelines and standards for content accessibility on the Web http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-WCAG20-20081211/. The overall goal of these guidelines and standards is to: " create Web content that is perceivable, operable and understandable by the broadest possible range of users and compatible with their wide range of assistive technologies, now and in the future ".  Sasktel.com will generally adhere to the Priority 1 checkpoints outlined by the WAI. As we continue to improve our Web site, we will reflect any changes within our accessibility statement, so you will know the progress we are making.
• Software You Might Need - Some documents on this website are available in a PDF format. Adobe Acrobat is needed to open these files. Acrobat is available to download at no charge from Adobe. PDF files can be very accessible to readers with visual or physical disabilities. Adobe provides a guide to using PDF documents.