The World Wide Web Consortium

The accessibility policy of this website (this "Website") is based on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) accessibility recommendations defined within the framework of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
In designing this Website we referred to the W3C guidelines on web contents published on May, 5th 1999 (WCAG 1.0).

In particular all the pages on this Website comply with the following requirements:

* W3C XHTML 1.0 Strict
* W3C CSS 2
* WAI-AA WCAG 1.0


The standard adopted

All the pages on the Website comply with the W3C XHTML 1.0 Strict standard and make a large use of the CSS2 style sheets, thus obtaining a distinct separation between the content and the graphic representation of the pages on the Website. The reason behind this is twofold: (1) it avoids a static pagination, through the use of resizable pages (e.g. if a window is resized the content is adapted to the new size of the window), and (2) it noticeably reduces the time needed to update the pagination.

The use of tables to format pages has been avoided wherever possible (generally they are only used for the visualization of data within tables).
The advantages of this include:

* a faster loading of the pages on the Website;
* the possibility to resize the window (the content flows without the need for scroll bars); and
* the ability to enlarge or reduce the text size (with internet explorer you can open the menu view>character and change the size).


Access-key: surf with your keyboard

For easier access to the Website’s content with the keyboard you can use the accesskeys, which are a combination of the ALT key and a letter or number. With internet explorer the enter key confirms the command.
On Apple Macintosh computers the "apple key" should be used instead of the ALT key.
Opera users can consult the support page for the keyboard shortcuts (press ALT+B) to ascertain the shortcuts for this browser.

* ALT+0 : Access to Navigabile web site;
* ALT+1 : Home;
* ALT+2 : The project;
* ALT+3 : About us;
* ALT+4 : Documents;
* ALT+5 : Info request;
* ALT+6 : Restricted area;
* ALT+7 : Accessibility.