Accessibility Statement
1) What is accessibility?
“The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.”
Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the World Wide Web
Accessible Internet involves online services that can be used without limitations by everyone regardless of physical and/or technical abilities.
These include people with or without physical disabilities, as well as those with technical or age-related limitations.
Web crawlers used by search engines to copy the content of Web pages are also given the best possible support.
2) Compliance
Our website complies with the guidelines of the W3C consortium (World Wide Web Consortium).
The Consortium aims to create standards for the design of Web pages based on standardized guidelines (WCAG - Web Content Accessibility Guidelines).
The pages were created on the basis of W3C's XHTML 1.0.
3) The website’s tools and functions
a) Font size
Visitors can choose the font size that best enables them to read the content. There are two ways of changing the font size.
- Use the “A-“ or “A+” buttons at the lower end of the page.
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Go to ‘View’ in the toolbar of most browsers and this will allow you to change the size of the font that you see on the website. For example, in Firefox and Internet Explorer go to ‘View’, then select ‘Text Size’ where you will be able to decrease or increase the font size.
For more advanced changes in font and background colour, go to ‘Options’ or ‘Preferences’ in the tool bar (often located under 'Tools') and select ‘Font’.
4) Description of links
ALT Tags in graphics
All of our images have been given ALT Tags that describe the respective image. This allows persons with physical and/or technical limitations to collect the information provided by the image, respective descriptions using help programs (such as a screen reader).
5) Tell us what you think
Please inform us of any problems you might encounter using our website. We will be happy to consider your suggestions to better align our services with the needs of our visitors.
For suggestions and comments, please fill in the form.
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