Puede que ya seas un usuario activo de las actividades de ocio online mencionadas anteriormente: redes sociales, mensajería instantánea, libros electrónicos, juegos, video tutoriales de cocina, manualidades, etc.
Sin embargo, cuando se trata de registrarse, suscribirse, comprar y reservar online, muchos adultos dan un paso atrás en el uso de la tecnología. Esto se debe principalmente a la falta de confianza y preocupaciones sobre cuestiones de privacidad y seguridad. Quizá por eso no tienes tantas ganas de organizar tus viajes online, a pesar de todas sus ventajas. Si la falta de confianza es tu mayor preocupación que te impide reservar online, entonces tienes razón en parte.
Las actividades online aumentan tan rápidamente que hoy en día apenas hay nada que no se pueda hacer online. Por desgracia, la ciberdelincuencia también va en aumento. Aunque es fácil reservar por Internet, hay que ser consciente de los posibles fraudes que pueden llevar a la pérdida de dinero (estas técnicas o actividades fraudulentas también se conocen como estafas).
Imagina que has reservado un precioso apartamento con vista al mar a un precio realmente bueno, pero llegas y descubres que no existe tal lugar y que el sitio web en el que reservaste ha desaparecido y el número de teléfono proporcionado no existe. Significa que te convertiste en víctima de una estafa online.
Otras estafas populares en el sector hotelero son las confirmaciones falsas de reservas de hotel, el rastreo de correos electrónicos y las falsas ofertas de venta de hoteles. En los últimos años, se han robado muchos datos de clientes de grandes empresas, y los hackers utilizan estos datos para enviar correos electrónicos que imitan a grandes empresas.
Durante la pandemia de Covid y la aparición de nuevos protocolos, los piratas informáticos (o hackers) se aprovecharon de la falta de familiaridad de los turistas con todos estos nuevos procedimientos y los incitaron a compartir datos personales o descargarse softwares peligrosos.
A veces, reservar a través de agencias de viajes online de terceros/intermediarios (OTAs) también conlleva cierto riesgo.
¿Significa esto que, a pesar de todas las ventajas de reservar online, haces bien en prescindir de ello porque no corres el riesgo de que te engañen?
En primer lugar, no olvides que en el mundo físico también existen todo tipo de fraudes, incluso más que en Internet (carteristas, facturas infladas de taxis o compañías de transporte sin licencia, cambio incorrecto, cobro excesivo a turistas en bares y restaurantes, pérdida de depósitos, etc.), pero eso no nos impide viajar. Sabemos cómo tener cuidado y evitar estas estafas. Lo mismo ocurre con la seguridad en Internet. A continuación, te damos consejos para navegar y reservar de forma segura.
Otra barrera para el uso de la tecnología puede ser la dificultad para usar las páginas web (mal contraste de colores, letras o botones demasiado pequeños, vocabulario difícil de entender, idioma extranjero, anuncios que se muestran, diseño confuso, etc.), especialmente si tienes algún tipo de discapacidad o limitación temporal.
Hoy en día, cada vez son más las empresas que quieren llegar al mayor número de personas posible, lo que les obliga a desarrollar sus webs siguiendo ciertas pautas de accesibilidad. Más adelante en esta unidad, también prestaremos especial atención a este tema y te proporcionaremos algunas herramientas que te permitirán navegar mejor por el sitio web, incluso si no parece tener algunas funciones de accesibilidad.
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We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all of the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside of it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and for MAC users.
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs, there may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to