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What is the Accessibility?

The accessibility consists of the access to the information without limitation some because of deficiency, discapacidad, or minusvalía.

The people are many who accede to the information of the Web sites from contexts very different from ours since:

• - They can have problems of ear, vision, mobility.
• - They can have difficulties of reading or understanding.
• - Perhaps they cannot use the keyboard or the mouse.
• - They can have a text reader single, a small screen or a slow connection, etc...

These groups constitute a 10-20% of the population and them to sail by site standard it is very difficult and in certain occasions impossible.

For that reason and for them instruments and tools have been created (for example, magnifying navigators of screen voice or) that adapt the computer to their form to operate and is necessary to structure the contents so that they can handle them.

Standards

In order to define the structure of documents Marked Tensile Language has been used of of Hipertexto (XHTML), and to arrange the elements and to present/display them of graphical way Style sheets in Cascada have been used (CSS). All the pages have been validated like XHTML 1.1 Transitional and CSS 2.0.

Keys of Fast Access

One of the active options of accessibility in this Web site they are the keys of fast access or acceskey.

The concrete use and activation of the keyboard short cuts depend on the navigator or agent of user. Most habitual they use the following combinations of keys:

• - Internet Explorer: ALT + key + ENTER
• - Netscape: ALT + key
• - Mozilla: ALT + MAYUS + key
• - Opera: CAPITAL LETTERS + ESC + key
• - ( In Macintosh computers, key ALT by key CTRL changes ).

All connection with Accesskey is indicated visually emphasized in the connection:

• - 0: Beginning of page
• - 1: To jump directly to the content
• - 2: Footer
• - e: Company
• - p: Products and Services
• - m: Environment
• - c: Contact - Budget
• - u: Location
• - n: The news (listed)
• - s: Spanish
• - g: English
• - ç: French
• - a: Accessibility
• - v: Privacy
• - l: Legal Warning

Connections and images

As much the connections of the main menu, like those of the lateral menu, as well as other that require it, contain a description by means of the attribute "title".

All the images contain a brief description by means of the attribute "alt", and those that need an extensive description, have it defined in the attribute "longdesc".

Visual design

This Web site uses layers and style sheets in cascade (CSS) for the visual formateo of the information. The content of the presentation is had separated, assuring so much the access as the correct visualization the information under different surroundings.

They have been used so large of relative sources for the main content of the Web, configurables by the users and the text options of its navigators. We have verified the correct visualization of this Web site in different versions from the main navigators (Internet Explorer 6 and superior, Mozilla, Operates), platforms, equipment and configurations.