Jose Angel Torres Perez, from now on “Torresp”, has created and keeps updated this web site identified with the name www.torresp.com so that the information contained will be for public use.
I consider very important to remove all the barriers that may difficult the access. So, helped by the means offered now by the technology, I have used all the necessary means to build a web accessible for everybody, even those that for any reason may find problems to access all the information.
I follow in this point the orientations of E-Europe, in agreement with the March 25 th , 2002 European Union Council Resolution on the Action Plan E-Europe 2002 “Accessibility to the Public Spaces and their contents”, and I support the initiative of the European Union Council declaring 2003 as the “European Year of Disabled Persons”.
The shown worry to remove all the walls that may difficult the access of everybody to the information and services offered by torresp in his website implies fulfilling some basic rules in the elaboration and presentation of the contents, those right now in it and those that will appear in the future. Those basic rules may be resumed as follows:
• to use a clear, simple, and ordained structure to organize the contents of the web in order to guarantee its understanding and facilitate its browsing.
• To use elements of programation and design perfectly identified and totally accessible for users with restricted conditions, using the help tools that may be found in the most common navigators, as well as those who need to use special tools like screen readers.
• To plan the process as successions of understandable accions by themselves and totally accessible, so that all may be completed despite the difficulties of any kind of the user.
• Not use exclusively visual elements when offering to the users information contained in the page. Because of this, I have avoided the reading and understanding based in the contrast of colors, which will get lost if the navigation is made in black and white, or in the design elements which make no sense when an screen reader is used.
• To use standard formats if possible, in relative and never absolute units, to ensure the consistency and uniformity when defining the page format. So, we are sure to allow functionalities that facilitate the reading of the pages to people with vision problems, as the increase in the letter size.
• To present the information and its organization so that its structure is clear at first sight after only reading the information presented in the page. This way, we are sure that ther information presented as text without format or in tables may be understood clearly by those users using a screen reader.
• To avoid the use of alternatives that execute actions not controlled directly by the user, when going through concrete points of the page. This way, we are sure that at any moment the user with a screen reader may control the navigation and his position inside the web without options as second screens, automatic updates or markers of automatic directions may induce navigation mistakes.
• To avoid the use of elements only oriented to get a specific visual structure but making difficult the reading of the contents of the page as special markers , etc. This way, we ensure not to break the logic of the information if the user has a screen reader.
• To identify rightly all the pages of the web as well as the elements included and the navigation tools offered with the names related to his location, destinations and use. This way, we ensure that in any point of the web the user has a clear reference of the place where he is and the place where he may go as well as the alternatives he can use in case he uses a screen reader.
• To label all the edition fields and to number rightly all the processes they are integrated in, besides to distribute them in a logic order when the user has a reader screen.
This way, we are sure that everybody will be able to get all the information contained in the web of torresp.
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