Ac­ces­si­bi­li­ty state­ment

As a pu­blic body wi­t­hin the me­a­ning of Di­rec­tive (EU) 2016/2102, we en­dea­vor to make our web­sites ac­ces­si­ble wi­t­hout bar­ri­ers in ac­cordance with the pro­vi­si­ons of the Hes­si­an Disa­bi­li­ty Equa­li­ty Act (Hess­BGG) and the Hes­si­an Or­di­nan­ce on Bar­ri­er-Free In­for­ma­ti­on Tech­no­lo­gy (HV­BIT) im­ple­men­ting Di­rec­tive (EU) 2016/2102.

What is al­rea­dy bar­ri­er-free?

  • Images that are re­le­vant for un­der­stan­ding the con­tent are pro­vi­ded with an al­ter­na­ti­ve text.
  • Pa­ges have con­tent-rich hea­dings in cor­rect out­line.
  • Ar­ti­cles are in­tro­du­ced by an H2 hea­ding and are grou­ped.
  • Bul­le­ted lists are dis­tin­guis­hed as lists.
  • E-mail links are pro­vi­ded with the in­di­ca­ti­on to open an ex­ter­nal e-mail pro­gram.

Sta­tus of com­pa­ti­bi­li­ty with the re­qui­re­ments

The re­qui­re­ments of ac­ces­si­bi­li­ty re­sult from §§ 3 pa­ra­graphs 1 to 4 and 4 of the HV­BIT, which was is­sued on the ba­sis of §14 of the Hess­BGG.

The web­sites of the HfMDK are not yet ful­ly com­pa­ti­ble with the above gui­de­li­nes. The in­com­pa­ti­bi­li­ties are listed be­low. The con­tent listed be­low is not bar­ri­er-free:

  • The .pdf files pro­vi­ded on the web­site are only par­ti­al­ly de­si­gned to be ac­ces­si­ble. The same ap­p­lies to vi­de­os (sub­tit­ling).
  • In­for­ma­ti­on on con­tent and na­vi­ga­ti­on in plain lan­guage and sign lan­guage is not yet avail­ab­le.
  • Links may be in­com­pre­hen­si­ble.

The fol­lo­wing con­tent is cur­r­ent­ly not ac­ces­si­ble, howe­ver, it is ex­empt from the ob­li­ga­ti­on un­der Ar­ti­cle 1(4) of EU Di­rec­tive 2016/2102:

  • File down­loads that have al­rea­dy been pu­blished be­fo­re 23/09/2018 and are not re­qui­red for cur­rent le­gal pro­ces­ses or ac­tive ad­mi­nis­tra­ti­ve pro­ce­du­res,
  • Au­di­os/vi­de­os pu­blished be­fo­re 23/09/2020,
  • Live strea­ming au­dio or vi­deo,
  • Third-par­ty con­tent and do­cu­ments, as the­se are out­si­de the con­trol of HfMDK Frank­furt,
  • Ar­chi­ve are­as that have not been up­dated sin­ce 09/23/2019. This in­clu­des, for examp­le, old re­se­arch pro­jec­ts and do­cu­ments of the Of­fi­ci­al An­noun­ce­ments, who­se in­for­ma­ti­on is still held on the web­site for do­cu­men­ta­ti­on pur­po­ses only.

 

Ju­s­ti­fi­ca­ti­on

The HfMDK Frank­furt is un­der­go­ing an ex­ten­si­ve di­gi­tiza­ti­on pro­cess, in which the re­launch of the HfMDK web­site is one com­po­nent.

At the time of the web­site re­launch, many ac­ces­si­bi­li­ty im­pro­ve­ments had al­rea­dy been made to the web­site, but the pro­cess is not yet com­ple­te and will con­ti­nue in the new sys­tem. Par­al­lel pro­ces­ses such as the im­ple­men­ta­ti­on of the Cam­pus Ma­nage­ment Sys­tem, among others, will be con­si­de­red in or­der to con­ser­ve re­sour­ces and ca­pa­ci­ty.

Date of de­cla­ra­ti­on: Oc­to­ber 16, 2021

Re­port bar­ri­er

Would you like to in­form us of exis­ting bar­ri­ers or re­quest in­for­ma­ti­on on im­ple­men­ting ac­ces­si­bi­li­ty? Plea­se feel free to con­tact Lor­na Lüers.

En­force­ment and Mo­ni­to­ring Agen­cy for Ac­ces­si­ble In­for­ma­ti­on Tech­no­lo­gy

If no sa­tis­fac­to­ry so­lu­ti­on has been found even af­ter your feed­back to the above-men­tio­ned con­tact, you can call in the Ac­ces­si­ble In­for­ma­ti­on Tech­no­lo­gy En­force­ment and Mo­ni­to­ring Agen­cy. Af­ter a pe­ri­od of six weeks, you have the right to con­tact the En­force­ment and Mo­ni­to­ring Body di­rec­t­ly. With the in­vol­ve­ment of all par­ties, the om­buds­man's of­fice at­tempts to de­ter­mi­ne the cir­cum­s­tan­ces of the lack of ac­ces­si­bi­li­ty so that the in­sti­tu­ti­on can re­me­dy it.

En­force­ment and Mo­ni­to­ring Of­fice for Ac­ces­si­ble In­for­ma­ti­on Tech­no­lo­gy
Hes­si­an Mi­nis­try for So­ci­al Af­fairs and In­te­gra­ti­on
Head­quar­ters: Gie­ßen Re­gio­nal Coun­cil

Prof. Dr. Erd­mu­the Mey­er zu Bex­ten
Sta­te Re­p­re­sen­ta­ti­ve for Ac­ces­si­ble IT
Head of the En­force­ment and Mo­ni­to­ring Of­fice

Land­graf-Phil­ipp-Platz 1-7
35390 Gies­sen
Pho­ne: +49 641 303 - 2901
E-mail: Durch­set­zungs­stel­le-LBIT@rpgi.hes­sen.de