TIC permits to detect and correct accessibility problems through the combination of automatic and manual revision tools. Staffs of experts on accessibility and web standards application ensure that private companies and Public Administration comply with national and international laws and regulations applicable to web accesibility.

The regulations that require Spanish public administrations to take the necessary measures to make their web sites accessible to all citizens came into effect on January 1st 2006. In order to meet such requirement, public administrations will apply the guidelines issued by W3C-WAI (the group that builds accessibility standards). CTIC Foundation, as an expert on W3C standardization, and more specifically on web accesibility, collaborates with public institutions and companies in the design of web environments that will permit access to all citizens, regardless of their age, disability or culture.

CTIC Foundation provides the following services to public administrations and companies:

• Development of new tools and improvement of the existing applications in order to allow users and companies improve their web sites accessibility. TAW products family.
• Creation of ad-hoc accessibility policies for organizations.
• Accessibility consultancy services.
• Diagnosis and proposal of improvement options for a web site.
• On-site training and e-learning.
• Accessibility certification based on CTIC-ESI methodology.
• Dissemination of accessibility and standards at different levels (companies and government).

Web accessibility certification

The effect of the regulations on accessibility implies the need to check its compliance. That is the reason why CTIC Foundation and IES (European Software Institute) have put together their specific expertise (CTIC Foundation, as expert on accessibility, and ESI, as expert on certifications) to design an international certification of web accessibility, aimed to become a quality mark and a guarantee on the compliance of the technical accessibility recommendations issued by the W3C-WAI group.

Certification levels

• Web Accessibility Certification A: certifies level A of WCAG 1.0
• Web Accessibility Certification AA: certifies level AA of WCAG 1.0
• Web Accessibility Certification AAA: certifies level AAA of WCAG 1.0

Our guarantees on accessibility

TAW: Web Accessibility Test

CTIC Foundation has developed the TAW accessibility analyser (www.tawdis.net), a tool that provides for the analysis, information and proposal of solutions to the accessibility problems of a web site. It is based on the Guidelines on Accessibility to web Content 1.0 (WCAG 1.0). TAW is the first accessibility tool in Spanish: it is the national and Latin American point of reference.

TAW products family

• TAW3. Desk application for the automatic analysis of web sites, from a single page to a complete web site. It makes possible to select verification points to be checked and to create new personalized rules. Finally, it generates different types of reports about the analysis result. Multi-platform: Windows, Mac OS, Unix and family (Linux, Solaris, etc.).
• TAW3 Online. On- line service that allows reviewing the accessibility of a particular URL.
• TAW3 Web Start. Java Web Start Version.
• TAW3 in a click. Extension for Firefox.

CTIC Foundation has provided its support and services to a large number of public institutions and companies within the web accessibility field, among them:

• Asturias Regional Government
• Caixa Galicia
• SPRI 
• IVAP (Basque Institute of Public Administration)
• Jaen Province Government
• Andalusia Public Health Service
• Ibermutuamur
• Red.es
• Informática El Corte Inglés
• Accenture
• Municipality of Zaragoza
• Gobernalia
• Caja Madrid.