VISUALIZATION OF THE SITE and accessing its contents

The site, with its use of stylized pages allows for viewing it in different ways. Selecting the following links it is possible to change the settings for visualization:

• CSS STANDARD: this is the “graphic” style page, that is, the one that is automatically used by the browser upon entering this site: the characters are of a fixed dimension and the pages are rich in colour against a background of non-vectorial bitmap graphics.
  
  
• CSS VISUALLY IMPAIRED: this is the page with a style adapted for persons with visual disabilities. The pages are created with fewer graphics and favour, instead, the contents. The font for these pages is of a relative dimension and contrasts with the background colours to facilitate reading.
  
  
• BLACK AND WHITE VIEW: allows having white background and the characters in black. The links are in blue and are underlined.
  
  
• NEGATIVE VIEW: graphically personalized with background in black and characters in white. Links are underlined.
  
  
• YELLOW ON BLACK VIEW: personalized with background in black and characters in yellow. Links are underlined.
  
  
• RED ON BLACK VIEW: personalized with background in black and characters in red. Links are underlined.
  
  
• NO-STYLE: allows for the visualization of the pages without a stylization format of the pages.

 

RAPID ACCESS KEYS

Many browsers allow for jumping to a specific link by pressing predefined keys. In Windows, pressing ALT + the access key; in Macintosh, pressing Control + the access key. All of the pages of this site have the following rapid access keys:

• 1 - Museum
• 2 - Info
• 3 - Exhibits
• 4 - Didactic Activities
• 5 - Events
• 6 - Press Room
• 7 - Photographic Archives
• 8 - Bookshop
• 9 - Home Page
• 0 - Search
  
  
• A - Accessibility

ADHERENCE TO THE STANDARDS

1. All of the pages of this site conform to WCAG, in accordance with the priorities defined in the guidelines of theW3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
2. All of the pages of this site conform to Section 508, in accordance with the guidelines of the federal laws of the United States Section 508.
3. All of the pages of this site utilize standardly recognized semantics. The Hl tags indicate the titles of the pages, while H2, H3 and H4 are used for subtitiles.
4. To assure compatibility in navigation for all types of equipment, JAVASCRIPT is not used in any page of this site.

ASSISTANCE in NAVIGATION

1. All of the pages of the site include a frame to use for searching for specific contents (rapid access key 0)
2. Many links have a title which describes them in further detail , unless they are not already sufficiently descriptive.
3. The links are written so that they make sense even out of context.
4. All of the images in the contents of this site have their own description in the ALT attribute.
5. Complex images include the LONGDESC attribute, that is, descriptions which explain the significance of every image to sight-impaired visitors.
6. The use of the TABINDEX attribute facilitates navigation and allows for passing from one hypertextual connection to the next.
7. The presence of a special hypertextual connection allows textual browsers to skip over the navigational bars and to obtain immediate access to the contents of the pages.