Standards applied

This website was developed to the accessibility guidelines formulated by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) under the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

More specifically, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (WCAG 1.0), level AA, were followed, further to the accessibility requirements for Government or Government-funded websites laid down in Spanish Royal Decree 1494/2007 of 12 November (Article 5).

Measures adopted

The main measures adopted to ensure compliance with the above legislation include:

• use of accessible HTML 4.01 Transitional and CSS 2.1 technology
• use of meta labels to include semantic information
• use of suitable markers for data tables
• use of clear and simple language
• use of links that, even out of context, are indicative of the type of content the user can expect to find on the target site
• use of alt labels that reflect image content as closely as possible
• use of appropriate font sizes and colour contrasts
• definition of elements with relative widths
• implicit and explicit label matching to their respective form controls
• use of redundant and consistent navigation mechanisms throughout the site.

Validation tools

The validation tools used to verify site accessibility were as follows.

• The online Web Accessibility Test http://www.tawdis.net
• The W3C CSS Validation Service http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
• The W3C Markup Validation Service hhttp://validator.w3.org/
• The WDG HTML Validator - Web Design Group http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/