What is accessibility?

Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can use the Web. More specifically, Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the Web, and that they can contribute to the Web. Web accessibility also benefits others, including older people with changing abilities due to aging.

Web accessibility encompasses all disabilities that affect access to the Web, including visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, and neurological disabilities. The document "How People with Disabilities Use the Web" describes how different disabilities affect Web use and includes scenarios of people with disabilities using the Web.

Millions of people have disabilities that affect their use of the Web. Currently most Web sites and Web software have accessibility barriers that make it difficult or impossible for many people with disabilities to use the Web. As more accessible Web sites and software become available, people with disabilities are able to use and contribute to the Web more effectively.

Web accessibility also benefits people without disabilities. For example, a key principle of Web accessibility is designing Web sites and software that are flexible to meet different user needs, preferences, and situations. This flexibility also benefits people without disabilities in certain situations, such as people using a slow Internet connection, people with "temporary disabilities" such as a broken arm, and people with changing abilities due to aging. The document "Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization" describes many different benefits of Web accessibility, including benefits for organizations.

Navegation

To facilitate the navigation of the visitors, all the pages keep a similar structure composed for:

• Head-board with selection of languages: Spanish and English.
• Principal menu: Engineering, Solutions, Clients, Company and Contact, and his subfamilies.
• Left part: I access to the private area, last news and subscription to the bulletin.
• The route of the section and the content of this one.
• Legal menu: Accessibility, Legal Notice, Privacy and Web map.
• Direction of the Company.

Visual design

This web site uses caps and sheets of style in waterfall (CSS) for the visual formatting of the information. The content of the presentation has separated, assuring both the access and the correct visualization of the information under different environments.

Relative sizes of sources(fountains) have been in use, configurables for the users and the options of text of his browser). We have verified the correct visualization of this web site in different versions of the principal browsers (Internet Explorer 5.5 and superiors, Mozilla, Opera), platforms, equipments and configurations.