Accessibility declaration
Web standards
The new design of www.bde.es has achieved a AA ("double A") level of accessibility according to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 
established by the W3C ; the design has been expanded with some points and recommendations belonging to the AAA ("triple A") level to improve overall accessibility.
In addition to the accessibility guidelines, the XHTML 1.0 standard for mark up of content and cascading style sheets (CSS) for visual design has also been adopted. As far as possible technologies requiring the use of specific apparatus or browsers has been avoided. These standards guarantee access to information using any browser that supports the recommendations of the W3C .
In the event of a user visiting the site using a browser that does not support style sheets, the structural mark up enables all content to be viewed correctly. In addition, the site may be browsed easily without having Javascript activated.
- Accessibility guidelines: All the pages comply (at least) with all priority 1 and 2 checkpoints defined in the guidelines of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. This gives a conformance level AA ("Double-A") compliance with the currently recommended accessibility standards.
- Structure: The pages have been validated as Transitional XHTML 1.0.
- Presentation: The visual presentation of the pages has been defined using CSS cascading style sheets, which have been validated with the CSS 2 specification.
If, despite the efforts we have made, you find that any part of the website does not meet the specified standards, we would be very grateful if you would send an e-mail to webmaster@bde.es, so that we can check and correct the problem.
Other formats used
- PDF format: Most of the information on the Banco de España website is in standard XHTML format, which is accessible for all users. There are also many documents in Adobe Acrobat® format, the widespread PDF (Portable Document Format),
which is generally used to maintain the content and composition of documents and printed publications. PDF documents (extension
.pdf) can only be viewed using the Adobe Acrobat Reader®,
which can be downloaded free from the Adobe website .
We recommend that you use Adobe Acrobat Reader® 6.0 or higher.
- Flash format: The site also contains dynamic content in Adobe Flash® format (extension .swf), which requires the Adobe Flash Player® to be viewed. This tool can be downloaded free from the download page for the Flash player
- Word format: Some of the documents on www.bde.es are in Microsoft Word® format (extension .doc) and can be viewed if you have any version of Microsoft Word installed on your computer. Many other text processors can also read this format. In addition, Microsoft provides a free viewer for Word documents, which can be downloaded from the Word Viewer page
- Excel format: Some of the online documentation on www.bde.es is in Microsoft Excel® format (extensions .xls,
.csv) and can be viewed directly if you have Microsoft Excel installed on your computer. If you do not have this software, Microsoft provides a free viewer for Excel files, which you can download from the the Excel Viewer page . In the case of statistical information contained in .csv files, consult the recommendations for viewing CSV files.
- PowerPoint format: There are also some files on the website in Microsoft PowerPoint® format (extensions .ppt, .pps) which can be viewed using any version of PowerPoint installed on your computer. Microsoft also provides a free viewer for PowerPoint files which you can download from the PowerPoint Viewer page .
- ZIP format: ZIP files (extension .zip) can be opened using WinZip® and some other compression programs which support this format. If you do not have this software, you can download an evaluation version of WinZip .
If you have any problems viewing any of these types of files, or you need to view them in a different format, do not hesitate to contact us by e-mail at webmaster@bde.es.