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Accessibility declaration of: Barcelona Digital City

Compliance status

This website is fully compliant with Royal Decree 1112/2018, of 7 September (over 90% of the pages fulfil all applicable criteria).

  • The website may contain content that is not covered by applicable legislation:

    1. Formats of office technology archives published before 2018.

    2. Time-based, pre-recorded multimedia content published before 2018.

    3. Time-based, live multimedia content.

    4. Online map and cartography services, although the essential information is provided digitally in an accessible way, in the case of maps used for navigation purposes.

    5. Third-party content that is not funded or developed by Barcelona City Council.

    6. Reproductions of heritage-collection assets that cannot be made completely accessible due to one of the following reasons:

      1st Incompatibility of the accessibility requirements with the conservation of the asset in question or with the authenticity of the reproduction.

      2nd Unavailability of automated, profitable solutions that make it possible to extract the text of manuscripts or other heritage-collection assets and transform them into content that is compatible with accessibility requirements.

    7. Extranet and intranet content understood as accessible websites only for a restricted group of people and not for the general public, published before 23 September 2019, until these websites are the subject of a major revision.

    8. The content of websites and applications for mobile devices that are classed as archives or archive tools because they only contain content that is not necessary for the performance of active administrative tasks and which have not been updated or edited after 2018.

  • Disproportionate burden: Non-applicable

Preparation of this accessibility declaration

This declaration was prepared on 08/11/2023.

The method used for preparing this declaration was an evaluation carried out by a third party [], as part of the collaboration with the Accessibility Office of the body.

Last revision of the declaration: 08/11/2023.

Observations and contact information

Communications may be made about accessibility requirements (Article 10.2.a of Royal Decree 1112/2018, of 7 September) such as:

  • Notifying any possible non-compliance by this website.

  • Communicating other difficulties in accessing content.

  • Requesting information and content excluded from the directive’s scope of application.

  • Formulating any other query or suggestion for improvement relating to the website's accessibility.

Via the following contact link.

The communications will be received and processed by the Accessibility Office, as the responsible Barcelona City Council unit.

Application procedure

If the response to the notification or the request is unsatisfactory, as established in the European directive (Article 7, section 1, letter c), you may make a complaint to the: Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation - Secretary General of Digital Administration.

Barcelona City Council commitment to accessibility

Periodically, the City Council carries out internal audits and consultancies in order to deal with possible non-conformities and achieve full accessibility to the website, making it possible for anyone to use it, regardless of their capability.

The development of barcelona.cat websites is based on the UNE-EN 301549:2022 and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines WCAG 2.1, at AA level, as established by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium).

If you find any obstacles on the site, please point them out using this form.