The accessibility provided on this website makes it possible to gain access to the information and various types of content, because the site was designed with a considerable decrease in both physical and technical barriers.

In recent years, different initiatives have arisen to co-ordinate a set of guidelines with the goal of improving website accessibility. Among these we must highlight the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), which forms part of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). This organisation has developed the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, the objective of which is to make network content accessible to the disabled.

One of the main purposes of the Consorcio Madroño website is to allow all users to browse the contents in this portal without difficulty in terms of accessibility, regardless of any physical or technical disabilities.

To achieve this, the portal’s many features have been studied to ensure that users may access all of its contents with the greatest possible ease. The most notable are as follows:

• The HTML and CSS code used in the site is compliant with the formal use of these languages so as to ensure that the contents are displayed properly on various web browsers.
• The portal’s visual features (font type, size and colour, backgrounds, etc.) may be selected from the style sheet so that users can adjust the text in accordance with their preferences.
• We took into account the site’s structure and semantic composition. On the basis of all this, the contents of the various templates were organised bearing in mind the section headings, lists and all other items which facilitate the website’s overall comprehension.