Accessibility and Usability Statement

THE FCCN, digital services of FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology, undertakes to make available the website fccn.pt, in accordance with Decree-Law No. 83/2018, of October 19, which transposes Directive (EU) 2016/2102 of the European Parliament and of the Council, on the accessibility of websites and mobile applications.

I. Status of compliance

The website fccn.pt dthe FCCN, digital services of FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology, this fully compliant to Decree-Law No. 83/2018 of October 19.

Non-conformities and/or exemptions are indicated below.

Non-conformities and/or subject to exemptions

A. Enumeration of sections / contents / functions dthe website that are not in compliance and/or subject to exemption:

• Not all pages respect the heading markup hierarchy.
• Not all informational images have correct alt text.
• Not all secondary information (dates, authors) uses at least a 10 point font size.
• The videos do not contain synchronized closed captions or a verbatim transcript.
• Not all PDF files allow you to extract the text content into TXT format.
• Not all long documents have a table of contents at the top with internal links to it.

B. Reasons which are the basis for the non-compliance of the contents indicated above:

• The accessibility requirements that have not yet been met are largely due to disproportionate burdens, as set out in Article 6 of Decree-Law No. 83/2018 and Article 5 of Directive (EU) 2016/2102. The cost or effort required to address some of the accessibility issues is disproportionate compared to the resources available within our entity.
• We cannot guarantee that some external content, such as third-party PDFs, follows accessibility best practices, although we continue to educate all partners on the importance of creating accessible documents.

II. Preparation of this accessibility and usability statement

This statement has been updated to 2024-10-22.

According to Article 9 of Decree-Law No. 83/2018, entities must adopt the following monitoring procedures. Procedures A) and B) are mandatory. Procedure C) is recommended.

A. Automatic assessments carried out

B. Manual assessments carried out:

C. Usability testing with people with disabilities:

The website has not yet been tested with users with disabilities.

III. Contact and request for information regarding to the website

To contact, send suggestions, make complaints or request additional information regarding the contents and/or features present inthe website dthe FCCN, digital services of FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology,, please use the following means:

IV. Other evidence

THE FCCN, digital services of FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology, did not present, when completing this Declaration, other evidence or efforts to make its website compliant with the accessibility requirements set out in Decree-Law No. 83/2018, of October 19.

V. Reporting situations of discrimination

According to paragraph 1 of article 13 of Decree-Law no. 83/2018, of October 19, whenever a person with a disability is subject to less favorable treatment than that which is, has been or will be given to another person in a comparable situation, which constitutes a discriminatory practice against people with disabilities, provided for and punished under the terms of Article 4 of Law No. 46/2006 of 28 August, that person may file a complaint in accordance with the provisions of Decree-Law No. 34/2007, of February 15.

The National Institute for Rehabilitation (INR, IP) provides a form to report situations of discrimination, forwarding complaints to the appropriate authorities. Every year, the INR, IP prepares an annual report on the application of the law that prohibits and punishes discrimination based on disability and the existence of an aggravated health risk (Law No. 46/2006, of August 28).

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This Accessibility and Usability Statement was created with the help of WAI-Tools PT Generator v1.5, developed within the scope of the project WAI-Tools, of which AMA is an integral part. The Declaration was drawn up in accordance with Decree-Law No. 83/2018 of 19 October.