Introduction Accessibility refers to a set of planning and development techniques aimed at ensuring that the contents of a website are accessible and usable by all users, thus overcoming any technological and disability barriers.
Approach Accessibility of a website is formally obtained by complying with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). In this regard we have endeavored to conform to the "A+" standard (that is, the
Priority 1 guidelines set out in the WCAG of the W3C) and have obtained the CSS validation. However we are not simply trying to obtain formal acknowledgements: these are our very first steps of a challenging pathway aimed at guaranteeing universal access to the website.
Accessibility features Access keys The pages of the website have been designed so as to allow moving through the site also without using the mouse, by simply using the keyboard. In this respect efforts have been made to offer the possibility of activating the main navigation links using specific key combinations also known as "access keys". The main navigation keys are the following:

ALT tags on graphics
Images and graphics found in the websites have been fitted with specific "ALT tags" that allow devices aiding people with disabilities, such as screen readers, to provide a text description instead of an image.

Detailed information about accessibility issues is available on the following websites:

http://www.w3c.org (World Wide Web Consortium)
http://www.w3c.org/TR/WACAG10 (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines)