Dos mujeres emprendedoras demuestran que, con resiliencia, ideas de negocios y el apoyo de la Unidad para la Atención y Reparación Integral a las Víctimas, pueden reconstruir sus proyectos de vida para sobreponerse a los daños que les causó el conflicto armado.
Mari Luna Mora y Claudia Estella Correa Ossa tienen en común no solo haber sido desplazadas por la violencia de grupos armados ilegales, sino que resurgieron como microempresarias en Medellín y también son líderes que ayudan a otras mujeres a superar sus hechos victimizantes.
Ambas hacen parte de los ganadores de un concurso entre los proyectos productivos de más de 100 víctimas del conflicto armado de varias regiones de Colombia, que se beneficiaron este año del curso Negocios para Nuevos Tiempos, una alianza entre la Unidad para la Reparación a las Víctimas, la Fundación Texmodas y la Universidad del Rosario. Estas son sus historias.
“Emprendedoras, con ideas de negocios y sueños”
Hace cuatro años Mari Luna inició su propio negocio de marroquinería y su marca FranMarc de confección de bolsos, billeteras, morrales y otros productos de cuero y lonas.
Dice que “la resiliencia me ha permitido seguir adelante con mis sueños e ideales, con mis costumbres y tradiciones. Somos personas emprendedoras, con ideas de negocios y con sueños, que fue lo único que no nos acabaron”.
Se refiere al desplazamiento forzado que sufrió hace 15 años cuando huyó de la violencia de guerrillas y grupos de autodefensas en La Cruz (Nariño). Recuerda que llegó a Medellín en busca de refugio y una nueva vida: “me dieron hospedaje en una casa donde tenían un taller de confecciones y empecé a hacer trabajos pequeños y aprendí a manejar las máquinas y a trabajar”.
En su proceso de reconstruir su proyecto de vida también se convirtió en líder como integrante de la mesa de participación de víctimas de Medellín y, a su vez, hace parte del Consejo Territorial de Paz, Reconciliación y Convivencia.
“Quiero luchar por mis metas”
Para Claudia, continuar su formación como microempresaria textil con el curso Negocios para Nuevos Tiempos “fue otra gran oportunidad que nos dieron de capacitarnos en planes de negocios, para fortalecer nuestros emprendimientos y no quedarnos ahí solo esperando a que nos den ayudas”.
El dinero del premio lo invertirá en tres máquinas para la producción del taller que “quiero dotar para luchar por mi meta de ser emprendedora y porque no podemos quedarnos en el hecho victimizante, sino levantarnos aprovechando las oportunidades que se nos dan como víctimas”.
Esta mujer, que hace 10 años salió a escondidas de un barrio de la comuna 13 de Medellín con su familia y ocho jóvenes músicos a quienes las bandas criminales pretendían asesinar, ahora ayuda a otras 13 víctimas a confeccionar sus metas y conformar una asociación de microempresarias.
Convencida de su deseo de apoyar a más personas, dice que con este proyecto “quiero transmitir mi conocimiento y apoyar a otras mujeres que han sufrido por la violencia y son resilientes como yo”.
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To accomplish this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at level AA. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide range of disabilities. Adhering to those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: people who are blind, people with motor disabilities, visually impaired, cognitively disabled, and more.
This website uses various technologies aimed at making it as accessible as possible at all times. We use an accessibility interface that allows people with specific disabilities to adjust the user interface (user interface) of the website and design it according to their personal needs.
In addition, the website uses an AI-based application that runs in the background and constantly optimizes its accessibility level. This application repairs the HTML of the website, adapts its functionality and behavior for screen readers used by blind users and for keyboard functions used by people with motor disabilities.
If you have found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we would be happy to hear from you. You can communicate with the operators of the website using the following email servicioalciudadano@unidadvictimas.gov.co
Screen reader and keyboard navigation
Our website implements the ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) attribute technique, along with several different behavior changes, to ensure that blind users who visit with screen readers can read, understand, and enjoy the features of the website. As soon as a user with a screen reader enters your site, they are immediately prompted to enter the screen reader profile so they can effectively navigate and operate your site. Here's how our website covers some of the most important screen reader requirements, along with console screenshots of code examples:
Screen Reader Optimization: We run a background process that learns website components from top to bottom, to ensure continued compliance even when the website is updated. In this process, we provide screen readers with meaningful data using the ARIA attribute set. For example, we provide accurate form tags; actionable icon descriptions (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guide for form inputs; roles of elements such as buttons, menus, modal dialogs (popups), and others. In addition, the background process scans all images on the website and provides an accurate and meaningful description based on Image Object Recognition as an ALT (alternative 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 activate screen reader settings at any time, users just need to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen reader users also receive automated prompts to activate screen reader mode as soon as they enter the website.
These settings are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the HTML of the website and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website work with the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdown menus with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, activate buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio items and checkboxes using the arrow keys and complete them with the space bar or the Enter key. In addition, keyboard users will find quick navigation and content skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first site elements while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving keyboard focus to them as soon as they appear, and not allowing focus to drift away from it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as "M" (menus), "H" (headers), "F" (forms), "B" (buttons), and "G" (graphics) to jump to specific items.
Disability profiles accepted on our website
Epilepsy Safe Mode: This profile allows people with epilepsy to use the website safely by eliminating the risk of seizures resulting from flashing or flickering animations and risky color combinations.
Visually Impaired Mode: This mode adjusts the website for the comfort of visually impaired users such as impaired vision, tunnel vision, cataracts, glaucoma, and others.
Cognitive Impairment Mode – This mode provides different support options to help users with cognitive impairments such as dyslexia, autism, AVC, and others to focus on the essential elements of the website more easily.
ADHD Friendly Mode – This mode helps users with ADHD and neurodevelopmental disorders to read, navigate, and focus on the main elements of the website more easily, while significantly reducing distractions.
Blind Mode – This mode configures the website to be compatible with screen readers such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack. A screen reader is software for blind users that is installed on a computer and smartphone, and websites must be compatible with it.
Keyboard Navigation Profile (Motor Disability): This profile allows people with motor disabilities to operate the website using the Tab, Shift+Tab, and Enter keys on the keyboard. Users can also use shortcuts such as "M" (menus), "H" (headers), "F" (forms), "B" (buttons), and "G" (graphics) to jump to specific items.
Additional UI, layout, and readability tweaks
Font Settings: Users can increase and decrease its size, change its family (type), adjust spacing, alignment, line height, and more.
Color Settings: Users can select various color contrast profiles, such as light, dark, inverted, and monochrome. Additionally, users can swap title, text, and background color combinations, with more than 7 different color options.
Animations: Epileptic users can stop all running animations with the click of a button. Interface-driven animations include videos, GIFs, and flashing CSS transitions.
Content Highlighting – Users can choose to emphasize important elements like links and titles. They can also choose to highlight only focused or suspended items.
Audio Mute: Users with hearing aids may experience headaches or other issues due to autoplay of audio. This option allows users to mute the entire website instantly.
Cognitive disorders: We use a search engine that is linked to Wikipedia and Wiktionary, allowing people with cognitive disorders to decipher meanings of phrases, initials, slang, and others.
Additional features: We provide users with the option to change the color and size of the cursor, use a print mode, enable a virtual keyboard, and many other features.
Browser and assistive technology support
Our goal is to support the widest possible range of browsers and assistive technologies, so our users can choose the tools that work best for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all the major systems that comprise more than 95 % of the user market share, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (readers). screen), for both Windows and MAC users.
Notes, comments and feedback
Despite our best efforts to allow anyone to adjust the website to their needs, there may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of being made accessible, or lack an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we're continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating, and improving its features and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this to achieve the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advances. For assistance, please contact servicioalciudadano@unidadvictimas.gov.co