Selecting Visual Styles

This website was programmed  so that users that have defined their own style sheets may apply them to all contents without any problems,   adapting font size and colour and the appearance of links, headers, lists, etc.

If users  do not have  their own style sheet, and wish to change the font size to "large font" or "high contrast", they may do so by selecting the corresponding visual styles.

Selecting Visual Styles

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The current accessible website

The Social Security website is committed to guaranteeing accessibility to all citizens, in compliance with the Service Law for the Information Society and Electronic Commerce, which affects the websites of all Public Administrations.

This  website  was created in compliance with all   content accessibility guidelines provided by the WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative), an agency that was created by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) to inform, research and encourage online accessibility efforts.

The WAI has established three accessibility levels: "A", double "A" and triple "A." Each level is reached after meeting certain guidelines or principles.

The initial objective of the Social Security was to meet accessibility level "A," and it has done so for most of its contents. Those sections for which work is still underway in this regard have a notice informing of their current status.

The next objective of the Social Security is to achieve the   double "A" level.

In order to ensure that the accessibility criteria is met, the website was tested using a program called WAT (Web Accessibility Test).

To meet intellectual accessibility guidelines, the Social Security website has used the NI4 protocol. The developers of this protocol guarantee its correct use on the Social Security website. 

Achievements:

• Navigation Menus: Drop down menus were eliminated to increase accessibility. Alternatives were found for browsers that do not support JavaScript.
  
• Accessibility in text contents: All templates that included contents from the accessible website were recreated using the accessibility criteria provided by the WAI.
  
• Images: Alternative texts were incorporated to all images, so display readers may interpret them for visually impaired users. This function is also useful for users that have disabled all images from their browsers.
  
• Keyboard Shortcuts: Special key combinations have been made available as shortcuts, so it is faster to browse the website using only the keyboard.
  
• Language Identification: All pages, applications and documents on the website have now an identification stating the language of their contents.
  
• Elimination of Javascript code: This type of code, which is not recommended, was eliminated from the website, since many users and browsers have disabled it from running in their systems, thus making it impossible for them to access the website's contents.
  
• Tables: All tables on the website were updated with the right code so that voice browsers can interpret them and read them out correctly.
  
• Meeting the NI4 protocol: We have achieved a greater intellectual accessibility by meeting the guidelines of the NI4 protocol.
  

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Future Accessibility Plans

The Social Security continues to work to ensure that its website may reach WAI accessibility levels double "A" and triple "A" for all its contents within the near future, thus reaching a higher number of users.

Currently we are working on the accessibility of the following elements:

• Meeting second-level guidelines ("AA")

We will achieve accessibility for the following sections of our website:

• Services with digital certificate.

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How to browse this site Keyboard shortcuts

Set out below are the keyboard shortcuts for the Social Security Website to help you browse more easily.

The use of keyboard shortcuts depends on which browser you are using. The most frequently used browsers use the following key combinations:

Internet Explorer: ALT + shortcut + ENTER

Netscape: ALT + shortcut

Opera: SHIFT + ESC + shortcut

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