Accessibility

ACCESSIBILITY POLICY

In the construction of this web portal, a series of measures have been adopted with the aim of ensuring the maximum number of people possible can access the information that it conveys and use the services provided through it, irrespective of the person's limitations or of those that arise from the context of use.

Thus, the following measures have been taken in the preparation of the portal:

• Use of CSS for the presentation of the information.
• Marker tags.
• Usable, intuitive and alternative browsing systems.
• Alternative descriptions on the images.
• Verifications on the display with different browsers and devices.
• Use of universal and alternative formats.
• The links provide details of the function or target of the hyperlink.
• Use of W3C standards.
• Access to main options by means of keyboard shortcuts.
• Browser window size adaptive design so that the portal is appropriately displayed on mobile devices.

COMPLIANCE WITH STANDARDS

The pages of this website meet the AA level in accordance with standard UNE 139803:2004 and the Accessibility Directives for Web Content 1.0 of the W3C. All the Priority 1 and Priority 2 requirements and a subset of the Priority 3 requirements have been checked with a manual analysis of the accessibility by means of different semi-automatic tools, user agents and specialised technicians.

KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS

The following keys are defined on this website:

• Access key 0 - Accessibility declaration
• Access key 1 - Homepage
• Access key 2 - Map of the website
• Access key 3 - Contact page
• Access key 4 - Search
• Access key 5 - Access to the content

The use of the access keys depends on the browser:

• Internet Explorer: ALT + shortcut + ENTER
• Firefox: ALT + SHIFT + shortcut
• Opera: SHIFT + ESC + shortcut
• Google Chrome: ALT + shortcut

TEXT SIZE

The accessible design allows the user to adjust fonts to a size that suits them. This action can be carried out in different ways, depending on the web browser used. Below are the menu steps necessary to find this functionality on the most common browsers:

• Mozilla Firefox: View > Text size > Increase Internet
• Internet Explorer: View > Text size > Larger
• Opera: View > Zoom > %
• Safari: View > Make text bigger
• Google Chrome: Tools > Activate zoom

TECHNICAL CONFIGURATION

WEB PAGES

Together with the web accessibility standards, the XHTML 1.0 Transitional standard has been adopted for the tagging of the content and cascade style sheets (CSS) for the design. These standards ensure access to the information through any browsing device that follows the standards and recommendations of the W3C.

CONTENT FORMAT

In some cases, the HTML pages may be complemented with content available in other presentation formats. In these cases, already implemented formats have been chosen with free plug-ins:

PDF FORMAT

For reading PDF documents, the Adobe Reader program must be installed in its full version, it incorporates an accessibility plug-in for those with visual difficulties:
Download Adobe Reader

FLASH FORMAT

Flash Format for videos, animations or multimedia integration

Download the Flash plug-in

USEFUL INFORMATION ON ACCESSIBILITY

Below are a series of links organised into different categories which are useful for obtaining more information on accessibility.

ACCESSIBILITY STANDARDS AND TECHNICAL DOCUMENTS:

http://www.w3c.org/
World Wide Web Consortium, and international work group that dictates general guidelines relating to the web.

http://www.w3c.org/wai/
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative.

HTML CODE VALIDATORS, CSS STYLE SHEETS AND ACCESSIBILITY:

http://validator.w3.org/
HTML code validator

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator
CSS style sheet validator.

http://www.tawdis.net/
Taw Validator, checks various aspects of web page accessibility.