Registration/Access

ACCESSIBILITY STATEMENT

Accessibility of public sector websites and mobile applications implies the set of principles and techniques to be applied when designing, building, maintaining and updating websites and mobile applications, ensuring equality and non-discrimination in access, especially for persons with disabilities and the elderly.

Royal Decree 112/2018 of 7 September 2018 on the accessibility of websites and applications for mobile devices in the public sector sets as minimum requirements:

  1. The websites and applications of obliged entities should be accessible to their users, in particular to older persons and persons with disabilities, ensuring that their content is perceptible, operable, understandable and robust, in accordance with the rules of Article 6.
  2. Accessibility shall be fully integrated into the design, management, maintenance and updating of the content of websites and applications.
  3. Entities shall, wherever possible, take measures to exceed the minimum level of accessibility required at any given time.

COMMITMENT OF THE TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF CANARIAS TO ACCESSIBILITY

In the TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF CANARIAS, we maintain a firm commitment to achieve the full integration of all users of the entity and society in general. Our priority is to ensure universal access to the content published on our website, reaching a level of AA accessibility as established in the WCAG.

For questions about accessibility requirements, you can contact us through the following means:

The response from the TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF CANARIAS It shall include:

  • The unit that issues the answer.
  • The decision taken.
  • The requested accessible information (if applicable).
  • In case of immediate non-compliance, the estimated deadline and the unit responsible for carrying out the corrections.
  • The unity to which it can be claimed and the procedure for doing so.

ACCESSIBILITY TECHNICAL SHEET

This year, we have updated the accessibility of our site using PageSpeed, ensuring that improvements are aligned with the latest accessibility practices and standards.

The results indicate the following:

Level of Adequacy: Priority 1 and 2

  • Average portal score: 94

No faults have been found with respect to the diagnosis made on all pages.

The accessibility review of the studies of the Web Accessibility Observatory is carried out using an automatic methodology developed expressly for this observatory. This methodology takes into account only 20 accessibility checks. Each check is made up of several checks performed automatically.

The methodology using the standard UNE 139803:2012 (WCAG 2.0) was approved by the Working Group on Websites of the General State Administration and by the Group “Observatory, Indicators and Measures” of the Sectoral Committee for Electronic Administration (regional and local governments).

Update History:

  • Date of publication: 5 March 2026 (1 ª review)