What is accessibility?

Web accessibility means that the largest number of people have the opportunity to access a web page and its contents regardless its navigation context and the type of disability of users.
The navigation context is made up of the devices, browsers, Internet connection speed, peripherals, PC or browser configuration, among other components.
Disability includes visual, hearing, motor or cognitive impairments.

Commitment Statement

To provide equal opportunity for all our web users, we have developed a website complying with WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative) accessibility guidelines. WAI is a group belonging to the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium).

The use of web standards established by the W3C, such as XHTML 1.0 Strict for valid semantic markup and cascading style sheets (CSS) for design, enables the correct visualisation of the website with different devices and platforms, while the printing of its contents is adequate.

For any enquiries, suggestions or troubles you find in our web accessibility, please send us an email to: vgil@pl-ae.com

Conformance icons

PLAE's website complies with the following:

Conformance with W3C "AA" level WCAG1.0

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 Level Double-A conformance. The link explains accessibility levels and use of icons.

XHTML 1.0

It states that XHTML 1.0 Strict has been properly used and the syntax use is restricted to that of this language. The link takes users to the W3C validator.

CSS-2

It states that the style sheet syntax is correct. The link takes users to the W3C cascading style sheet validator.

Navigation help

Variable font size

Relative units have been used in the website pages, for instance, for text size. The web pages can be properly visualised in any resolution and users can change the text size if they have this option available.

Site map

Users will see a web page index in the site map.

Navigation path

Users will be able to see at which section/subsection they are by looking at the navigation path at the top of the page.

Keyboard access:

Navigation and content access can be achieved through direct keyboard access. To use these keys, and depending on the OS you have, you should use the following key combinations:

Internet Explorer 4.0, Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox:

ALT + Keyboard shortcut

Versions higher than Internet Explorer 5:

ALT + Keyboard shortcut + ENTER

Opera:

Capital letters + Esc (to activate keyboard shortcuts)

MacOS:

CONTROL + Keyboard shortcut

These are the access keys or keyboard shortcuts available for the website:

Keyboard shortcuts:

0

Home

1

Presentation

2

Activities

3

Members

4

Regulations

5

Links

6

Documentation

7

Press room

8

Skip to navigation menu

9

Skip to content

C

Contact

O

Site map

I

Accessibility

Skip to content

Users who have text-only or voice browsers (screen readers) can skip directly to the navigation menu and content of each page through the "Go to main menu" or "Go to content" links located on each webpage in this site or through shortkey 8 and shortkey 9, respectively.

Images

Complex images include the LONGDESC attribute or online description providing details of image contents..
Since not all browsers interact well with the LONGDESC attribute, we provide links to image long descriptions through the [d] link.

File download

Downloadable files in this website have been created as documents RTF or PDF with the best possible accessibility.

Link Types(Rel. links)

To facilitate navigation through screen readers and text-only browsers, special links have been included.
Netscape 6, Opera 7 or Mozilla-based browsers have an auxiliary navigation bar that allows accessing the following links:

index:

Home page link

contents:

Site map link

help:

Accessibility statement link

copyright:

Legal notice link

up:

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