The website pages of http://www.redciudadesclima.com/ have been designed and checked according to the guidelines defined in the 'Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 document, created by the work group WAI belonging to W3C.
The aim of these guidelines is to facilitate access to the information offered on the Internet to all citizens. The following have been adopted as some of the main measures.
Standards
The language used for the content and its structure is XHTML 1.0 Strict, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) have been used to make the elements available and to show them graphically. All of the pages have been validated as XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS 2.0.
Images
All of the images contain a brief description by using the alt attribute.
Links
All of the links contain a description by using the title attribute.
Text size
The fonts used have relative dimensions, which allows the user to control the size from whichever navigator they are using.
Keyboard shortcuts
They facilitate access to the different sections quickly and directly. The main shortcuts available on the web site and are listed below:
- A: Go to this accessibility section
- H: Go to Home
- L: Go to the Legal Notice section.
- M: Go to the Site Map
- O: Go to the contact section
The activation of the shortcuts depends on the navigator used. The most common are:
- Internet Explorer: ALT + letter + ENTER
- Netscape: ALT + letter• Mozilla: ALT + letter
- Opera: CAPS LOCK + ESC + letter
Surfing The web site facilitates coherent surfing maintaining the same structure on all of its pages.
This structure is comprised of:
- The main surfing menu, located on the left, contains links to the sections contained in each main section.
- A central zone where the content of the Website is shown.
Design
This Website uses Cascade Style Sheet (CSS) layers and sheets for the visual design of the pages. In this way, the content is independent from the presentation and the users that wish to can surf by information, disabling the download of the style sheets in their web browser.
Level of Accessibility
The site www.redciudadesclima.com has been validated with the TAW and W3C Markup Validation Service tools.
The level of accessibility attained is double A (AA) in compliance with some of the triple A (AAA) regulations.
The icons that appear at the top of this page are used to certify that the Website design complies with the stated requirements of accessibility.
- Conformity with the 3WC specifications for the XHTML language, version 1.0.
- Conformity with the 3WC specifications for the HTML language, version 4.01.
- Conformity with the specified syntax for 3WC for the pages in CSS 2.0 style.
- Conformity with the Web Content Accessibility Guideline 1.0, with a Double A, level, according to WAI.
In the event that a user encounters a problem related to access to content while surfing, or detects the incompliance with a verification point of the WAI Guidelines, we would ask that they advise us as soon as possible by writing to: info@intercomgi.net