This website has been built and designed to comply with the WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility guidelines. This means that certain technical tools and content compilation principles have been used to assist users with visual, hearing, physical, speech, cognitive, language, learning and neurological disabilities in consuming the content of the website.
In addition, it is possible to improve the accessibility of information by configuring your computer at the browser and operating system level. Below is an overview of the main tools.
A more comprehensive guide on the same topic is available here.
Keyboard navigation
This website can also be navigated by keyboard only. Navigation is done using the Tab key. Each press moves the focus to the next item. The element which is currently active has a box around it. In order to activate the link in focus, press Enter on the keyboard.
The first link which becomes active in this way is hidden from the normal user and is specifically designed for keyboard navigators. The name of the link is ‘Skip to the main content’. This link skips the header and the left panel and jumps to the main content of the page.
Enlarged content
Web Browsers
To enlarge content, we first recommend using the built-in functionality of your browser.
In all popular browsers, you can zoom in or out of a page by holding down the Ctrl key (the Cmd key in OS X) while pressing the + or – key. Another handy option is to use a mouse. Hold down the Ctrl key while moving the mouse scroll wheel. You can return to the normal size by pressing Ctrl and 0 simultaneously.
Separate programs
All the most common operating systems include settings to enlarge the content displayed on screen.
In Windows 7, you will find a program called Magnifier when you press the Start menu button down on the left, type Magnifier (the first few letters are enough) and press Enter. A small window will open with everything enlarged. By default, the program tracks the mouse cursor position.
To open this program in Windows 10, click on the Windows key down on the left and at the same time press the plus (+) key as many times as you want to enlarge the content. To reduce the size of the content, press the Windows key and the minus (-) key simultaneously.
To enlarge websites on Apple computers, you must navigate as follows: Apple menu > System Preferences > Accessibility (or Universal Access) > Zoom.
Browser Extensions
Web browsers have plug-ins which enable enlargement of websites and add to the existing functionality of the browser. For example, ‘Zoom Page’ for Firefox, which enables you to enlarge the entire page or only the text, and AutoZoom for Chrome.
Screen reader
Screen reader is a program that tries to interpret what is displayed on the screen and convey it in other forms – for example as sounds or audio commentary. It is mainly an aid for the visually impaired.
The content presented on this website has been created according to the standards understandable to screen readers and in such a way that every type of visual content can be reproduced in a different format. For example, images have textual descriptions, videos have descriptions of what is happening in the video and the layout and order of the structural elements takes into consideration the movement of the screen reader and enables information to be consumed in a logical order.
A choice of popular screen readers:
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