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Description of the Web Accessibility Symbol

A tilted globe, with a grill overlaid. A keyhole is cut out on its surface.

Affixing the Web Accessibility Symbol

The Web Accessibility Symbol does not guarantee that this site is 100% accessible. Use of this symbol only demonstrates an effort to increase the site’s accessibility in accordance with Council of Ministers’ Resolution 97/99 on the accessibility of the public administration’s sites on the Internet for citizens having special needs;

Focus on accessibility in the Portal

The Official Portal of the Presidency of the Republic is particularly concerned with accessibility for people with special needs (persons with disabilities and the elderly). To a large degree the Portal meets the international accessibility standards for Web contents, making things easier for those accessing the site using access technologies.

Even for those who do not have these technologies, the Portal is able to read itself aloud. The voice is of high quality and this function is very useful for the blind and the elderly.

From the accessibility standpoint, the Portal’s structure has been carefully designed, allowing blind users to take utmost advantage of their screen reading technologies.

Links providing the framework surrounding accessibility:

• The UNIC ACCESS Programme – Information Society Accessibility for Citizens Having Special Needs
  http://www.acesso.umic.pt/
   
• Council of Ministers’ Resolution 97/99 on the accessibility of the public administration sites on the Internet for citizens having special needs
  http://www.acesso.umic.pt/acesso/res97_99.htm
   
• National Plan for Participation in the Information Society by Citizens Having Special Needs
  http://www.acesso.umic.pt/legis/pnpcnesi.htm
   
• W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
  http://www.utad.pt/wai/wai-pageauth.html
   
• W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
  http://www.w3c.org/wai/
   
• ACESSIBILIDADE.net/ UTAD’s (Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro University) CERTIC (Centre for Rehabilitation Engineering in Information and Communication Technologies)
  http://www.acessibilidade.net
   
• Microsoft Accessibility - Technology for Everyone
  http://www.microsoft.com/enable/
   
• IBM - Accessibility Center
  http://www-03.ibm.com/able/
   
• Adobe
  http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/
   
• Sun Microsystem
  http://www.sun.com/access/
   
• Apple
  http://www.apple.com/accessibility/
   
• Oracle: white paper on Accessibility in Oracle Forms Applications
  http://www.oracle.com/accessibility/apps02.html
   
• WEBMASTERS ACCESS electronic mail distribution list
  http://www.egroups.com/group/acesso-webmasters/