Accessibility statement
We are keen for this site www.viabenedicti.it to be accessible to as many users as possible.
In order to do this, during the planning process we considered the
issue of making all content accessible to people with visual
impairments or with motor disabilities, which make navigation difficult
or impossible.
To this end, the site has been built in accordance with guidelines laid
down by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), the independent
organisation which establishes standards for the sharing of information
by those publishing on the web. The branch of the W3C that deals with
the issues of accessibility, the WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative),
has also drawn up guidelines to incentivise and improve the
accessibility of web content (WCAG - Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines).
The primary objective of these guidelines is to promote accessibility.
By following these, we have striven to make our web content usable for
all, independently of the particular method they are using to access
the web (for example normal browsers, screen readers etc) or of any
environmental factors (e.g. noisy environments, badly lit or brightly
lit rooms, environments in which the user needs to keep their hands
free, etc).
Conforming to these guidelines allows users to access information on the website as quickly as possible.
The guidelines do not suggest web developers avoid images or video etc,
but simply suggest how to render this multimedia content accessible to
a wider public.
The current version of the WCAG guidelines is 1.0. The guidelines are
prioritised from 1 to 3; conforming to the guidelines for each priority
is cumulative (to conform to priority 2, you must first conform to
priority 1) and assigns the level of accessibility, indicated by the
letter A.
"A" = conforms to the 1st priority guidelines
"AA" = conforms to the 1st and 2nd priority guidelines
"AAA" = conforms to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd priority guidelines
The current level of accessibility for www.viabenedicti.it is level 2.
There is still a lot left to do, but we are confident that over time we
can continue working and take the portal to the highest level of
accessibility.
This page will be updated from time to time as new initiatives are implemented to improve the accessibility.
PARTICULAR FUNCTIONS OF THE SITE
Available access keys
This site uses a setup that closely matches most international recommendations on access keys. These are:
- 1 — Home Page
- 2 — Skip to content
- 3 — Site Map
- 4 — Search field focus
- 5 — Advanced Search
- 6 — Site navigation tree
- 9 — Contact information
- 0 — Access Key details
Using access keys in different web browsers
- Internet Explorer 5+ (Windows)
- Hold down the Alt key, press the number or letter of the access key, release both keys then press ENTER.
- Firefox, Mozilla and Netscape 7+ (Windows)
- Hold down the Alt key and press the number or letter of the access key.
- Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape 7+, Safari and Omniweb (Mac OS X)
- Hold down the Ctrl key and press the number or letter of the access key.
- Konqueror (Linux)
- Press and release the Ctrl key, then press the number or letter of the access key.
- Internet Explorer 4 (Windows)
- Hold down the Alt key and press the number or letter of the access key.
- Internet Explorer 5+ (Mac)
- Hold down the Ctrl key and press the number or letter of the access key.
Validation
We have used XHTML 1.0 and CSS that conforms to specification, as laid out by the W3C because we believe that usability and accessibility must have a solid foundation. If anything on this web site does not validate correctly, please contact the Site Administration.
We have also endeavoured to achieve AA accessibility as measured against version 1.0 of the WCAG. We are aware however, that a number of the checkpoints of the WCAG are subjective — and although we are sure that we have met them squarely, there may be instances where interpretation may vary.
