Informations for sailors
This website follow W3C's WAI/WCAG standards for accessibility and the italian legal dispositions of the so called "Legge Stanca" (Disposizioni per favorire l’accesso dei soggetti disabili agli strumenti informatici, Dispositions for handicap bearers to favor the access to the computer science instruments) [the text of the law, not yet pubblished on the G.U.R.I., is available on line from the Italian Parliament website].
Using adequate browsers, it is possible to change the visualization modality (style sheets) from "standard" modality to "default" (di base) modality (this one is the default for text-only browsers, like Lynx) to a special modality designed for the requirements of not seeing people (ipovedenti); more over, the pages of this website were optimized for blind people too, if they are using some special browsers for surfing internet, called speech-enabled browsers.
REMARK: Microsoft Internet Explorer does not support style sheets and it is not a speech-enabled browser for not seeing people. If you want to try a (free) browser capable to change the style sheets, download and install Mozilla Firefox; as example of speech-enabled browser, you can download and install WebSpeak.
The pages of this website are designed with a special server-side algorithm (at present still in test) that try to recognize automatically the language of the browser and build the text of the page accordingly. It means that it is sufficient to surf the pages, and you'll be able to read them in your own language, without any special procedure. It is obvious that all this algorithm presupposes a correct formulation of the options of the browser, specially for the language (of course...). Since it is possible that your browser haven't a correct formulation of its options, it's possible that you are reading these pages in a language that isn't your. If you want to switch manually in another language just click on one of the following links:
italiano english espanol [currently the language is english]
italiano english espanol
Usually the symbols you find here should be showed on every page. We prefer to show all of them here, with their meaning, so that they are not of impediment throughout the normal navigation.
A page showing this symbol is certified from W3C consortium as 100% consistent with XHTML 1.0 standard. XHTML is a new standard for writing webpages, created by the W3C consortium. Since Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 is not fully compatible with this standard, we have wrote some hack to adjust its behavior. Let's know if you'll experience any kind of problems. You'll find the W3C consortium website at: http://www.w3c.org
This symbol is similar the precedent one. It means that this pages are using the CSS standard to define the website style. A style can include the background color, colors and dimensions of text, and so on; it include the way your browser can read the pages, some directives for making them compatible for blind people and many other things. Anyway, this website can be easily seen by browsers that doesn't support at all style sheet and CSS standard.
Pages showing this symbol are tested by Cynthia Says website; you can find this site here: http://www.cynthiasays.com/
This is the International Webmasters Association-The HTML Writers Guild logo; this is a professional association for people that write webpages. Although this site looks with a simple outer aspect, behind the scenes there is a lot of work and, in fact, it was written like a content management system (cms), using html, php and the MySQL DBMS. This symbol guarantees that when the author wrote the code have followed the IWA coding style rules and that the author is a member of the IWA-HWG. In other words, this logo guarantees for the seriousness of the web application and of its author.