Working to enhance website accessibility
The Norinchukin Bank has adopted our purpose: “Dedicated to sustaining all life – Work together with our stakeholders to foster the agriculture, forestry and fisheries industries and to create a prosperous future for food and lifestyles, and thereby contribute to a sustainable global environment.” In line with this purpose, we aim to contribute to the sustainable development of the agriculture, forestry and fisheries sector, and to the realization of a sustainable global environment and sustainable society.
On the Norinchukin Bank website, we disseminate information about various initiatives directed toward the achievement of the goals outlined above. To create an environment which enables as many people as possible to access information about the Norinchukin Bank easily, we hereby announce our intention to implement Measures for Enhancing Website Accessibility in relation to the Norinchukin Bank website.
We will be proceeding in line with this announcement to make the Norinchukin Bank website and services easier to access and more helpful for all our stakeholders.
The Norinchukin Bank’s Policy on Website Accessibility Measures
1. The level of accessibility we are aiming to achieve
We are aiming to achieve Level AA in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
2. Scope
The Norinchukin Bank website（https://www.nochubank.or.jp/en/）
Please note that, starting from FY2024, we will initially focus on enhancing accessibility for the specific webpages noted below, with the intention of gradually expanding the scope of implementation to cover other webpages in the future.
- Homepage（https://www.nochubank.or.jp/en/）
- Message from the CEO（https://www.nochubank.or.jp/en/about/message.html）
- News releases（https://www.nochubank.or.jp/en/news_release/）
3. Strengthening understanding of diversity and promoting inclusion
By advancing measures to enable website users to access the information and services presented on a website more easily, the enhancement of website accessibility helps to strengthen understanding of diversity and promote inclusion within society.
We will continue striving to further improve website accessibility, so that even more visitors to the Norinchukin Bank website can make use of the information provided by the website without obstacles.
4. Inquiries regarding website accessibility
We are proceeding with measures to enhance the accessibility of the Norinchukin Bank website （https://www.nochubank.or.jp/en/）, but if you experience any problems when using the site, or notice anything that you want to inform us about, then please let us know; we will endeavor to solve the problem.
For any such inquiries, please contact us via the email address provided below.
Depending on the content of your inquiry, we may need to inform other departments within Norinchukin Bank, or related agencies; your understanding is appreciated.