Accessibility

The Suez Group undertakes to make available to the largest number of Web users a site that conforms to international accessibility standards, known as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 1.0).

Here is some information that will help you use the Website www.suez.com more efficiently.


What is Web accessibility?
The aim is to "Make the Web and its services available to all individuals, regardless of their hardware or software, network infrastructure, their language, culture, geographical location or their physical or mental capacity.”
Tim Berners-Lee, director of W3C


Complying with W3C standards
•The majority of the pages on this site comply with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). Most of them adhere to the access rules for levels 1 and 2, as well as some access criteria for level 3 access.
•The XHTML code used complies with XHTML Specification 1.0 and the style sheets comply with the CSS standard.
The Internet site evolves on a regular basis in order to provide better accessibility to assistance technologies. It is reviewed regularly in order to meet as many accessibility criteria as possible and to improve user-friendliness and access to information.
Please contact us if you have any comments on this subject, via webmaster@suez.com


Larger characters and style sheets
The text content of this site can be enlarged ad infinitum. The size of the text can be selected in your browser, under display preferences.


Searches
We also offer a search engine using key words in the site’s pages and documents in French or English. The search engine is accessible from any page, on your screen’s upper right hand corner.
You can extend your search to one or more columns on the site or to documents in French and/or English.
Your search results are displayed in the form of a list of 10 page or document references.


Supported browsers

The SUEZ Website is optimized at a screen resolution of 1024 by 768 pixels or more. The most common browsers are compatible:
-Internet Explorer (5,5, 6),
-Firefox,
-Opera,
-Safari


Reading PDF documents
Some documents, which are formatted in Acrobat PDF, can be downloaded. To read them, you need to download and install a plug-in, available free-of-charge, from the following address:
Adobe reader plug-in: free download


Reading documents in the FLASH format
Some content is available in the Flash format. To read it, you need to download and install a plug-in, available free-of-charge, from the following address:
Adobe-Macromedia Flash plug-in: free download


Viewing VIDEO format
Some content is available in video form. It can be viewed only if you have the right plug-in.
Via SUEZ video rebroadcasts you can systematically check the compatibility of your equipment before accessing video content.


Organizing information and the site’s navigation principle
The SUEZ Internet site offers a reading depth of a maximum of five levels. The first two levels are located in the upper horizontal part of the screen and the three others are always positioned vertically on the left side of the screen.
It is possible to navigate through the site using tabs. You merely need to press your keyboard’s “Tabulation” key and repeat this action until the desired link is selected. You must press the Enter key to go to the link.