Portal de Cartagena

www.portaldecartagena.com

• Home
• Business
• Hotels
• Restaurants
• News
• Advertisement

This initiative, which includes a multimedia GPS guidance system indicating the barrier-free routes through the city of Cartagena, you can move to any city

The Technology Center of Information Technologies and Communications (CENTIC), promoted by the Ministry of Universities, Business and Research in the Region of Murcia, through the Institute of Development, has successfully coordinated a project for the city of Cartagena , which has managed to create the first European certified tourism website accessibility, which means that it has achieved a hundred percent Web accessible and user-friendly for all people, even if they have visual or hearing disabilities, and also thanks to a multimedia GPS system, those who submit motor difficulties, will now have access to barrier-free tours around the city.

This project "Cartagena Port of Cultures" Tourism for All @ s ", where she brought together CENTIC companies ONCE Foundation, the City of Cartagena and other company, joining forces to work towards an ambitious goal, such as getting closer all the tourist attractions of Cartagena to persons with disabilities.

Thus, this project has two great merits, having achieved a non-intrusive Web, that is, it is easy to use and shows a clear content, where audiodescription information through accessing the content on the main monuments of the city, and another, thanks to a GPS guidance system easy to use multimedia, people with physical disabilities can visit the city through previously validated paths do not exhibit any kind of obstacle.

From the technical point of view should be stressed to the company associated with the CENTIC, which has been responsible for the development of Multimedia GPS guidance system.

This system not only allows accessible guided tours of the city, but also has phrases or text equivalents.

It is also integrated with the Web portal developed by the Department of New Technologies of the City of Cartagena.

This achievement has been recognized once the European certification Euracert, Web accessibility specialist organization that honors and endorsed the initiative, already several cities interested in imitating the model of project coordinated by the CENTIC.

Source: Red de Centros Tecnológicos