Accessibility
To facilitate the use for people with disabilities, Vacheron Constantin implements accessibility features to improve navigation for screen reader users, keyboard navigation and text-only browsers. Thus all users can access our content without difficulty. This fits into the group’s general policy in favor of diversity.
Features available on www.vacheron-constantin.com
The main logo
On every page, a single click on the Vacheron Constantin logo leads back to the home page of the www.vacheron-constantin.com website.
Main menu
The main menu is a mouse-over menu which can be controlled by the mouse, the keyboard or with the fingers on a touch screen. The main menu lets you access the headings and main pages of the www.vacheron-constantin.com website.
Page footer menu
At the bottom of the page, the footer menu lets you access all headings and sub-headings of the site and additional pages such as the contact page, the Legal Notice page, the site map, etc.
Site map
On every page of the site, a site map can be accessed by a link in the page footer menu. This site map gives you an overview of the tree structure of the www.vacheron-constantin.com website and links you directly to the page or heading of your choice.
Functionalities offered by your browser
As well as the aids made available directly on the www.vacheron-constantin.com website, the site has been designed so as to allow your browser to make the most of its own functionalities. Increasing character size It is not always easy to read text on the screen. A default size is defined for each text on the www.vacheron-constantin.com website, but you have the possibility of increasing the size of the characters.
Keyboard navigation
The www.vacheron-constantin.com website has been designed so as to all keyboard navigation on all pages. In most cases, the Tab key is all you need to sequence through the clickable elements in the page. And if you want to work backwards through the sequence you can use the key combination Shift + Tab.
Skip link
A skip links which allows users to skip navigation content and quickly access main content is available in every page of the website.
PDF Documents
The www.vacheron-constantin.com website offers PDF documents for download. To view these documents you need the Adobe Reader software, which can be downloaded for free here: https://get.adobe.com/readerIf you need an accessible version of a download document, please submit us a request with a means of contact below.
Videos
The www.vacheron-constantin.com website offers a certain number of videos. A special effort has been made to make these videos accessible to as many people as possible.
Conformity of the www.vacheron-constantin.com website with WCAG 2.0
Throughout the stages of design, creation and updating of the www.vacheron-constantin.com website, the owner of the website is working to comply with good accessibility practices by the W3C in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0).
The owner of www.vacheron-constantin.com continues to improve the accessibility of its digital communication platforms. Nevertheless, if you come across a problem when navigating or accessing certain content on www.vacheron-constantin.com, feel free to contact us giving as much detail as possible about your situation and the problem encountered, so that we can find a solution together.
Tools and technologies support used to check accessibility
- IE9 – 11
- Firefox V.47
- Chrome V.52
- Lecteur d’écran Jaws V.17
- Lecteur d’écran NVDA 2015
- Tanaguru V.3.1
Despite all the attention that we were able to bring the user experience of our website, if you encounter difficulties in using it, thank you to contact us by using the contact means listed below.
Contact us
To contact us go to the contact page.