ACCESSIBILITY STATEMENT

INTRODUCTION

This website was designed in light of the accessibility recommendations provided by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as part of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), according to the principle of universal design.
 
The reference document for making the website accessible was the recommendation published by the W3C on 5 May 1999 containing the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 1.0), as adopted in the Italian legal system with Law n. 4 of 2004 (the Stanca Act) and by Presidential Decree n. 75 of 1 March 2005 (Stanca Act Implementation Regulation)
In evaluating the degree of accessibility of the resources that are part of this website, applications to assist in validation were used. However, much attention was paid to analytical and manual assessment by experts who are qualified in the matter, following the inspection points outlined by the WCAG 1.0.
 
Following said assessment, the website was determined to be compliant with the following standards:

• XHTML 1.0 Strict
• CSS 2.0
• Second level of accessibility (double A) according to WCAG 1.0
   

COMPLIANCE WITH WCAG 1.0

The following guidelines have been complied with:

• Don’t rely on colour alone (Guideline 2)
• Use markup and style sheets and do so properly (Guideline 3)
• Clarify natural language usage (Guideline 4)
• Create tables that transform gracefully (Guideline 5)
• Ensure that pages featuring new technologies transform gracefully (Guideline 6)
• Ensure user control of time-sensitive content changes (Guideline 7)
• Ensure direct accessibility of embedded user interfaces (Guideline 8)
• Design for device-independence (Guideline 9)
• Use W3C technologies and guidelines (Guideline 11)
• Provide context and orientation information (Guideline 12)
• Provide clear navigation mechanisms (Guideline 13)
• Ensure that documents are clear and simple (Guideline 14)

ADVANCED NAVIGATION SUPPORT

In order to ensure the widest possible availability of the website’s content, advanced navigation support tools have been added,
such as keyboard commands for quick access to the various sections of the website and quick connections to the main menu and content
More specifically, the implementation scheme of the shortcut keys is shown in the following table.

Keys and relative destinations

In addition, please note that various browsers include different ways to activate the quick access keys (shortcuts);

we’ve listed a few of those related to the most commonly-used browsers:

Web browser and shortcut key