Accessibility

The homepage in front of you has been built and designed to meet the WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility guidelines. This means that certain technical tools and principles of content creation have been used, which help to consume the content of the website for users with vision, hearing, physical, speech, cognitive, language, learning or neurological impairments.

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 basic tips.

A more comprehensive guide on the same topic is available here.

Keyboard navigation

This website can also be navigated using only the keyboard. Navigation is done using the Tab key. With each press, the focus moves to the next element. The currently active element is indicated by a color change and a box around it. To activate a focused link, press the Enter key on your keyboard.

Enhancing content

Web browsers
To enlarge the content, we recommend first using the built-in functionality of the web browser.

In all popular web browsers, you can zoom in and out by holding down the Ctrl key (Cmd key in OS X) and pressing either the + or – key at the same time. Another convenient option is to use the mouse: holding down the Ctrl key and at the same time moving the mouse scroll wheel. You can return to normal size by pressing the Ctrl and 0 keys at the same time.

Standalone programs
All the most common operating systems contain settings to increase the content displayed on the screen.

In Windows 7, you can find a program called Magnifier if you click on the “Start” menu button at the bottom left, type Magnifier (the first few letters are enough) and press Enter. A small window will open in which everything is magnified. By default, the program tracks the position of the mouse cursor.

In Windows XP, you can find Magnifier by going to Start > All Programs > Accessories > Accessibility > Magnifier.

On Apple computers, to use zoom, navigate to: Apple menu > System Preferences > Accessibility (or Universal Access) > Zoom.

Web browser extensions
For web browsers, there are zoomable extensions that add to the existing functionality of the web browser. For example, “Zoom Page” for Firefox, which allows you to enlarge both the entire page and only the text; AutoZoom for Chrome.

Using a screen reader

A screen reader is a program that tries to interpret what is displayed on the computer screen and convey it in other forms – for example, as sounds, audio commentary. In particular, it is an aid for the visually impaired.

The content presented on this website has been created according to standards that can be understood by screen readers and in such a way that any type of visual content can be reproduced in another form. For example, the images have textual descriptions, below the video is a description of what is happening in the video, the arrangement and order of the structural elements takes into account the movement of the screen reader on the screen and allows information to be consumed in a logical order.

A selection of popular screen readers:

JAWS (Win­dows)
VoiceO­ver (OS X, free, built-in)
NVDA (Win­dows, free)
Sys­te­mAccess (Win­dows)