Accessibility

One of the goals of this website is to avoid infoexclusion and to encourage accessibility in order to universalise information. There are users with physical disabilities, problems to connect and those who use old browsers with problems to view the contents. Aware of the importance of facilitating all users with access to Internet, Tarragona 2017 has taken the presentation of its contents well into consideration.

To set up this website, we have taken into account the standards established by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)'s Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), whose aim is for websites to be more accessible to all users:

- recommendations for AA priority of the WAI are applicable.
- we have followed W3C standards regarding html and styles.

1.- Responsibility for structure and code
This website uses xhtml code which enables creating standard documents and a clean structure. The positioning of the content has been developed via css without tables. In this way, the screen readers for the visually impaired and the blind read the document in a logical fashion.

2.- Responsibility for images
All of the images of this website use the 'alt' attribute with their description in text format, barring images that are purely decorative, in which this attribute is empty.

3.- Responsibility for links
The links whose text does not fully describe the destination have 'title' attributes with a clarification. There are no javascript pseudo-links. All links can be followed on any browser, even if javascript is disabled.

4.- Responsibility for visual design
Relative sizes are used in the fonts. Hence, the size of the text can be changed according to the corresponding browser option.

This website makes intensive use of style sheets for layout, no tables are used unless absolutely necessary when displaying certain data. If your browser does not use style sheets, the contents of the page will still be readable.

5.-  Responsibility for acronyms and abbreviations
This website uses acronyms and abbreviations. Visual browsers that support with will show a line of dots beneath the acronyms or abbreviations. When positioning the cursor over it, an extended description of the meaning of the acronym or abbreviation shall appear.