Accessibility

The River Guadalquivir Basin District has complied with Royal Decree 1494/2007dated the 12^th of November by which Regulations on Basic Conditions for Access by Disabled Persons to Technologies, Products and Services Related to Society Information and Social Communication Media, are approved. In accordance with these Regulations CHG has built its geoportal up taking special effort on it being easily accessible independently of the user"s type of software, network infrastructure, culture, geographic location and capacities.

This page indicates the accessibility degree applied as well as the revision date. To transmit possible access difficulties or place complaints, inquiries or suggestions you can use the “Contact us” section:
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From the 7^th of October 2009 this page complies with web accessibility guidelines that regulate and mark Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) developed by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Guidelines of web contents (WCAG 1.0) level AAA have been applied in compliance with the Royal Decree that establishes priorities 1 and 2 of UNE Norm 139803:2004 as minimum compulsory level.

For this improvement the following actions –among other– have been carried-out:

1. Page structuring through headline elements.
2. Page presentation control through a style sheet (css).
3. Clear identification of each page by using meta-data.
4. Use of a clear and concise language in texts, headlines and links.

This accessibility declaration gathers those pages under dominion idechg.chguadalquivir.es. We must make clear that the applications accessible through this geoportal does not comply with the accessibility criteria.

For the geoportal development we have used accessible technologies XHTML 1.1 and CSS 2.1 together with those supporting most browsers and devises such as Javascript and Flash. Checking tools used have been:

• W3C Markup Validation Service.
  Used for checking code and to obtain XHTML 1.1 validation.
  http://validator.w3.org
• W3C CSS Validation Service.
  Tool for validation of the style sheet CSS version 2.1.
  http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator
• Web accessibility Test.
  Checking through the downloading of Java Web Start TAW tool version 3 of web contents to obtain WAI AAA WCAG 1.0 conformity.
  http://www.tawdis.net/taw3/descargas/jws/es/taw3.jnlp

For an easier navigation at the IDE-CHG geoportal you can look-up at practical advice.

Some links where you can find more information:

• Web Accesibility Iniciative (WAI) del W3C:
  http://www.w3.org/WAI
• Oficina Española del W3C (en castellano), Guía breve de accessibilidad web:
  http://www.w3.org/standards/webdesign/accessibility

Practical advices

Following there are the most practical advices to access all the geoportal pages:

Disable pop-up blocker

Disable pop-up blocker so you can view this Geoportal correctly.

To increase the font size according to the browser

Internet Explorer

The easiest way to modify the text is to keep pressed the "Ctrl" key while the mouse wheel is rotating.

If you prefer it you can modify the size following three steps from the menu:

1. Click on the "View" option of the browser menu.
2. Go to "Text size" option.
3. At the menu that appears on the right, choose the option according to your needs: "Largest", "Larger", "Medium" "Smaller" or "Smallest".

Mozilla Firefox

The easiest way to modify the text is to keep pressed the "Ctrl" key pressed while the mouse wheel is rotating.

You can also:

1. Enlarge the text size by pressing on "Ctrl" and "+" keys at the same time.
2. Decrease the text size by pressing "Ctrl" and "-"k eys at the same time.
3. To go back to normal size: press "Ctrl" and number 0 keys at the same time.

If you prefer it you can modify the size following three steps from the menu:

1. Click on the "View" option of the browser Toolbar.
2. Go to "Text size" option.
3. From the menu that will appear, choose "Increase", "Decrease" or "Normal".

To view a larger mouse pointer

In order to see a larger pointer on your screen:

N.B.: if you have installed a different mouse in your computer the instructions may be different to those specified in this section.

Windows 95, 98, 2000, Me, XP

1. Open the "Start" menu by clicking the "Start" button or the Windows logo placed between "Ctrl" and "Alt" or click "Ctrl" + "Esc".
2. Click "Settings" or press the "T" key.
3. Click on "Control Panel" or press the "C" key.
4. Click on "Mouse" or press the "M" key repeatedly until "Mouse" stands-out and then press "Enter".
5. You will see the mouse properties.
6. Click on the "Pointers" tab or press "Ctrl" and tabulator keys at the same time until the "Pointers" tab is shown.
7. Below "Scheme" there is a pull-down menu for multiple selection where you can select the existing mouse pointer types. Click on the arrow of the pull-down menu until you get the full list below.
8. Use the "up" and "down" keyboard"s arrows to select the different Systems. Select "Large system scheme" of "Black system scheme".
9. To choose the scheme, click and personalize the pointer. Click on "Ok" of press "Enter" to leave the Mouse properties.

Accessible documents in PDF format

In some cases the geoportal information is presented in the PDF format. That is why we put at your disposal the Adobe Reader with accessibility options.