This web site has acquired the commitment to ensure the accessibility of their content to all citizens in compliance with regulations of the Law of Services of the Information Society and Electronic Commerce. Therefore, the development of their pages has been following the guidelines of accessibility to the contents provided by the WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative), an organisation created by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), to inform, investigate and promote the work in web accessibility.
The WAI has established three levels of accessibility A, double "A" and triple "A", reaching each level with the compliance of the corresponding guidelines or principles.
In case of this web site, it has been set as aim to fulfill the level "AA" of accessibility and, in order to assure these levels of fulfillment of accessibility criteria, the corresponding checkings of the pages have been realized by the program TAW (Test of Web Accessibility).
Some of the features implemented to facilitate the accessibility are the following ones:
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It has created a clear structure of pages, defining headings, lists, elements of understanding, etc. which facilitates access to content with screen readers.
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The code used is adjusted to formal grammars for their correct interpretation and visualization of contents in different browsers..
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The text source has been defined with relative units, allowing the user to enlarge or decrease the size of the same from the browser options.
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In addition, sources types and the same colors, colors of background, etc. have been defined through sheets of style (CSS), so that the user can define his visual preferences
