Accessibility

General

Artes Mundi strives to ensure that its services are accessible to people with disabilities. Artes Mundi has invested a significant amount of resources to help ensure that its website is made easier to use and more accessible for people with disabilities, with the strong belief that website accessibility efforts assist all users and that every person has the right to live with dignity, equality, comfort and independence.

 

This website has been developed to conform to the W3C accessibility guidelines for level AA compliance. We have endeavoured to conform to all the presented guidelines in Level AA wherever possible.

Accessibility Menu on artesmundi.org

artesmundi.org makes available the UserWay’s Web Accessibility Widget is powered by a dedicated accessibility server. The software allows artesmundi.org to improve its compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1).

Enabling the Accessibility Menu

The artesmundi.org accessibility menu can be enabled by clicking the accessibility menu icon that appears on the corner of the page. After triggering the accessibility menu, please wait a moment for the accessibility menu to load in its entirety.

Text Size

It’s possible to increase (or even decrease) the size of all the text on the pages of most websites. You can do this by using the font size controls integrated in your web browser. Web browsers all do this differently, but in general you should look at the options in the browser’s ‘View’ menu, failing which, consult your browser’s Help documentation. Here are some specific instructions for some of the more popular browsers.

Internet Explorer 7+ (PC)

Go to the ‘View’ menu, ‘Text Size’, and select your desired setting. The default is medium. Alternatively, if you have a mouse with a wheel you can hold the CTRL key on your keyboard whilst scrolling up or down with the wheel to alter the text size.

Firefox (Mac and PC)

Go to the ‘View’ menu and either click the ‘Increase Text Size’ or ‘Decrease Text Size’ menu items, or alternatively you can use the CTRL key with the plus or minus to increase or decrease the size.

Safari (Mac and PC)

Go the ‘View’ menu and use the ‘Make Text Bigger’ and ‘Make Text Smaller’ menu items. Alternatively you can use the option key with + or – to increase or decrease the text size.

Chrome (Mac and PC)

At the top right, click More Settings button (three vertical dots). Under ‘Appearance’ change font size by clicking the down arrow beside ‘Font size’, then select the font size you want. You can also change more font options by clicking Customize fonts. Alternatively, you can use the CTRL key with the plus or minus to increase or decrease the size.

Disclaimer

Artes Mundi continues its efforts to constantly improve the accessibility of its site and services in the belief that it is our collective moral obligation to allow seamless, accessible and unhindered use also for those of us with disabilities.

 

In an ongoing effort to continually improve and remediate accessibility issues, we also regularly scan artesmundi.org with UserWay’s Accessibility Scanner to identify and fix every possible accessibility barrier on our site. Despite our efforts to make all pages and content on artesmundi.org fully accessible, some content may not have yet been fully adapted to the strictest accessibility standards. This may be a result of not having found or identified the most appropriate technological solution.