Accessibility in this web

An Accesible Web

"Guaranteeing the citizens’ right to accessibility, both in physical and virtual world, regardless of their physical, sensory or cognitive disabilities."

Ongdeuskadi.org is in compliance with Level Double- A of ‘Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0' developed by the WAI workgroup belonging to the W3C.

These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with disabilities. This way, website becomes more accessible to people with disabilities and also benefits other users. The purpose is to facilitate the access of users to information offered by the Internet.

Some of the verification points established by W3C Guidelines are detailed below:

Standards- compliant

Every page is consistent with the Accessibility Guidelines or Principles of Accessible Design established by the WAI workgroup belonging to the W3C.

Every page has been created according to XHTML 1.0 Recommendation for web development by means of structured and semantic markup, published by W3C. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS version 2.1) have been used in order to organize items and show them in a graphic manner.

Every page is consistent with Accessibility Guidelines or Principles of Accessible Design. Every website page has been designed and checked for compliance with Level AA guidelines established in 'Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0’, developed by the WAI workgroup belonging to the W3R.

Visual Design

This website uses cascading style sheets (CSS) and layers according to W3R guidelines for the visual design of the pages. This way contents act separately from presentation, so users could disable browser’s sheet discharge for surfing the Net. Even if browser doesn’t allow style sheets, web contents will remain absolutely understandable due to their structural markup. ¡

Help with Navigation

Navigation

This website assures a consistent navigation by maintaining the same structure in every page. Such structure consists of:

  • A horizontal navigation bar at the top of the pages with links to every page section.
  • A vertical navigation menu on the left margin of the page when we access to main site sections.
  • A heading or browser history in each section so that users could always know where they are.
  • A horizontal navigation bar at the foot of the page with links to Legal and Privacy Statements, Accessibility, web map or scheme and contact information.
  • Web contents will always be located in the middle of the page, depending on the section we are.
Accesskeys

Most browsers can go directly to specifical links just by pressing certain key combination (accesskeys) set up in the website.

For instance, if you are working with Windows you should press Alt+ accesskey (with Internet Explorer you should press also “Enter”) and with Macintosh you should press Ctrl+ accesskey.

Www.ongdeuskadi.com accesskeys:

(Accesskey) - Destination

0 - Accessibility
1 -Table of contents (Web Map)
2 - Legal Statement
3 - Contact

a - front page
b -who we are
c - dngo
d - interesting

Images

By pressing “alt” every image will give a brief description of it to the user.

Text Size

Fonts used in this website possess relative dimensions, which allow user to control their size by means of links intended for such purpose, situated in the heading of each section, always accessible and visible to the user.

Links

Most links whose text doesn’t fully describe destination use explanatory title attributes.

There are no javascript pseudo- links. All links can be followed in any browser, even if javascript is turned off.

If the user finds any trouble related to web contents or detect any failure regarding any of the verification points of WAI guidelines while surfing this web, please contact: comunicacion@ongdeuskadi.org