Accessibility
The pages of the www.gamesa.es website have been designed and checked in keeping with Web Standards and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 drawn up by the WAI Work Group belonging to the W3C.
The purpose of these accessibility guidelines is to facilitate access to the information offered on the Internet to all citizens. The following are among the main measures that have been adopted:
Web Standards
The language used for contents and their structure is XHTML 1.0 and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), have been used to lay out elements and present them graphically. All pages have been validated as XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2. Contents are separated from the layout and functionalities, thereby allowing access to them from any kind of device.
Images
All images contain a brief description through the alt attribute.
Links
The links are sufficiently descriptive in themselves, thereby facilitating browsing from link to link. In some cases, information is complemented through a title attribute, such when downloading a document or opening a new window.
Font Size and Elastic Design
The website’s layout has been done with relative sizes, so that the user may adapt not only the text but the website as whole to the desired size.
If users wish to increase or diminish the viewing size, they may do so through:
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the keyboard::
- Internet Explorer: pressing down the ctrl key and using the mouse’s scroll wheel.
- Netscape, Mozilla: ctrl key + '+' key to increase size; ctrl key + '-' to decrease it.
- the browser’s menu: 'view' > 'font size'
- tools offered on the website, located next to the contents: increase and decrease icons:
Browsing and Usability
- Simplified browsing system
- Coherent and consistent visual browsing and structure throughout the website
- Indication of location through ‘breadcrumbs’
- Keyboard access to main options
- Logical browsing order through tabulator
The main shortcuts available on the website are listed below:
- 0: Go to the website’s home page
- 1: Skip browsing or go to contents
- 2: Go to Gamesa... section
- 3: Go to Products section
- 4: Go to Principles section
- 5: Go to Where are we section
- 6: Go to Investors section
- 7: Go to Partners section
- 8: Go to Press section
- 9: Go to Our People section
- l: Go to Legal section
- a: Go to Accessibility section
- m: Go to Web Map section
- c: Go to Contact section
The way the shortcuts are activated depends on the browser. The most frequent are as follows:
- Internet Explorer: ALT + letter + ENTER
- Netscape: ALT + letter
- Mozilla: ALT + letter
- Opera: SHIFT + ESC + letter
Functionalities
Pages containing any kind of special functionality offer their contents in an accessible version. One can therefore avoid dependence on the type of user agent to access the contents.
Forms
Forms allow for logical browsing with the tabulator. Controls are associated to their corresponding tag.
Level of Accessibility
The contents on www.gamesa.es have been validated with the following automatic validation tools:
In addition to automatic checking, a manual check of the website has been conducted, thereby ensuring its contents meet Double A (AA) standard.
Should any user find any kind of access problem to contents when browsing or detect a non-compliance with any verification point of the WAI Guidelines in order to meet Double A (AA) standard, please let us know as soon as possible at the following e-mail address: info@gamesa.es.