ACCESSIBILITY
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The website of the Hon. Valdepeñas City Council intends to be accessible to everyone, so that those with any type of disability or technological limitations are not excluded.
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
To ensure accessibility to website content, we have applied the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0, which has been a recommendation of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) since its publication in May 1999. These guidelines consist of a group of technical documents developed by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG WG), which is part of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). of the W3C. WCAG 1.0 collects the generally recognized principles for accessible web design, organizing them into 14 guidelines. In turn, each guideline has one or more checkpoints that explain how the guideline is applied. Each checkpoint has a priority level, depending on its impact on accessibility.
Level of compliance with guidelines
In this regard, the main pages of this site comply with all priority 1 and 2 checkpoints, as well as most priority 3 checkpoints, of WCAG 1.0. This assumes a “double A” (AA) level of compliance with the WAI accessibility standards.
Validation
The validation of the level of adequacy consisted of a manual analysis carried out by the development team at this headquarters. To carry out the analysis, various automatic evaluation tools have been used such as:
- TAW version 3 of the CTIC Foundation
- Color Contrast Analyzer 2.2a by Jun in collaboration with Steve Faulkner
While these and other tools are helpful and make the review task much easier, it is important to perform a thorough manual review, as automated tools cannot detect all potential accessibility issues.
Structure and presentation
The site has been semantically marked, that is, HTML elements and attributes are used only to define the structure of the content, its presentation being completely controlled by style sheets. To this end, the pages have been labeled to adequately convey their structure. Tags are used to denote page titles and section and subsection headings within each page. This benefits screen reader users who can move through sections of pages using key combinations.
The content is organized logically, so that even if the user’s browser does not support style sheets (for example, the Lynx text browser) or has them disabled, the pages can still be read.
Relative text sizes are specified, to respect the text size specified by each user in their browser. You can change the font size using the options provided by the browser, usually available in the “View” menu, “Text Size” option or directly with the CTRL and + (increase size), CTRL and – (decrease size) keys.
Legislative framework
Spanish legislation on accessibility, which in its Law 34/2002 of July 11, on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce establishes that public Administrations have to adopt the necessary measures so that the information available on their respective Internet pages can be accessible to people with disabilities and the elderly before December 31, 2005. This law is partially developed with Royal Decree 1494/2007, of November 12, by which approves the Regulation on the basic conditions for access by people with disabilities to technologies, products and services related to the information society and social media.
The LAE, Electronic Administration Law 11/2007 states, in its Article 4:
Principle of accessibility to information and services by electronic means in the terms established by current regulations on this matter, through systems that allow them to be obtained in a safe and understandable manner, especially guaranteeing universal accessibility and the design for all of the supports, channels and environments so that all people can exercise their rights on equal terms, incorporating the necessary characteristics to guarantee the accessibility of those groups that require it.