Accessibility
The Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC) aims to provide the university community and society in general with a website whose design makes it accessible regardless of limitations imposed by the environment, the Internet connection or personal circumstances.
Royal Decree 1494/2007, of 12 November, establishes that the information available on the Internet pages of public administrations must be accessible to elderly and disabled persons, with the minimum level of accessibility required to meet priorities 1 and 2 of standard UNE 139803:2004. Public educational institutions, training institutes and universities, as well as private schools that are fully or partly funded by the public, are also obliged to conform to this standard.
This website has been generated with
Genweb UPC 
, a tool that allows to the creation and management of web pages according to the UPC institutional style guide.
Genweb UPC is a project co-authored by the Communication Service of UPC and
UPCnet developed with the Open Source Content Management System
Plone . This site has been designed to be completely accessible and usable, working in accordance with the W3C accessibility guidelines.
Pautes WAI
Els continguts del web de la UPC han estat validats amb la certificació Doble-A, segons les recomanacions de la WAI (Web Accessibility Iniciative), grup de treball internacional que pertany al W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) , organisme que vetlla perquè cap col·lectiu pateixi discriminacions de cap mena que puguin ser causa de fractures socials en el món virtual.
En aquest sentit, les tècniques emprades al web de la UPC encaixen amb el que la WAI preconitza, tant per al marcat XHTML 1.0 com per al CSS.
Changing text size in common web browsers
Mozilla Firefox
Increase text size: CTRL + mouse wheel up, CTRL + + (plus key), or View > Text Size > Increase
Decrease text size: CTRL + mouse wheel down, CTRL + – (minus key), or View > Text Size > Decrease
Restore default size: CTRL + 0 (zero), or View > Text Size > Normal
Safari
Increase text size: Command (Mac) / CTRL (PC) + + (plus key), or View > Make Text Bigger
Decrease text size: Command (Mac) / CTRL (PC) + – (minus key), or View > Make Text Smaller
Restore default size: Command (Mac) / CTRL (PC) + 0, or View > Make Text Normal Size
Internet Explorer
Increase text size: CTRL + mouse wheel up, CTRL + + (plus key), or View > Text Size > Larger / Largest
Decrease text size: CTRL + mouse wheel down, CTRL + – (minus key), or View > Text Size > Smaller / Smallest
Restore default size: CTRL + 0 (zero, not with numeric keypad), or View > Text Size > Medium
Opera
Increase text size: CTRL + mouse wheel up, or View > Zoom > 120% (or more)
Decrease text size: CTRL + mouse wheel down, or View > Zoom > 80% (or less)
Restore default size: View > Zoom > 100%
Chrome
Increase text size: CTRL + mouse wheel up, CTRL + + (plus key), or Page icon > Zoom > Larger
Decrease text size: CTRL + mouse wheel down, CTRL + – (minus key), or Page icon > Zoom > Smaller
Restore default size: CTRL + 0 (zero, not with numeric keypad), or Page icon > Zoom > Normal
Access keys
Access keys are a navigation tool that enables you to get around this site using your keyboard.
More information about access keys:
W3C Accessibility Guidelines .
This site uses a setup that closely matches most international recommendations on access keys.
Access keys available on this website
1— Home page2— Skip to content3— Site map4— Search field focus5— Site navigation tree9— Contact information0— Accessibility information
Press SHIFT + ALT + access key.
Contact
We are working to maintain and improve the accessibility of this website. If you notice any accessibility-related anomalies on any of its pages, please contact the webmaster.