Accessibility

What is accessibility?

Accessibility is the quality that something has of being used or known without the possible limitations of a user being a barrier. These limitations may have their origins in physical, technological or structural causes. Thus, a tool is accessible when users do not need to have, permanently or occasionally, a determined level of intelligence, hearing, vision, mobility or capacity for remembering.

Accessibility on the web

TaPsm S.L. strives to make its portals accessible, regardless of the kind of hardware, software, web infrastructure, language, culture, geographical location or capacity of its users.

The W3C as a guide to web accessibility

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium that sets standards for the World Wide Web. It was born in the 1990s to encourage the evolution and inter-operability of the web, emphasizing its universality. In 1997, the W3C created the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) to provide the guidelines and resources that help make the web accessible. The W3C developed what are known as the Web Contents Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), whose main function is to guide the design of web pages towards an accessible model.