1. Accessibility

Accessibility

Digital Accessibility Statement

Responsible public body

Ferdinand-Braun-Institut gGmbH, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik (FBH)

We strive to make our web presence accessible. The digital accessibility statement is required by the Berlin Accessible Information and Communication Technology Act (BIKTG Bln). The technical requirements for accessibility are derived from the German directive for accessible information technology (BITV 2.0).  

This digital accessibility declaration applies to the website https://www.fbh-berlin.de/en/.

When was the accessibility declaration created/revised?

This declaration was created on 01.08.2021 and revised on 11.07.2024.

The review of accessibility was carried out by means of a self-assessment.

How accessible is the offer?

This website is only partially accessible. The requirements of BITV 2.0 are only partially met.

Which areas are not accessible?

The areas listed below are not accessible for the following reasons:

Barrier: Non-text content

  • Description: Some images and control elements have insufficient, incorrect or no alternative text.
  • Measures: Adjustment of the alternative texts
  • Timetable: Remediation in 2024

Barrier: Info and relationships

  • Description: The website has partially incorrect heading hierarchies.
  • Measures: Adjustment of the heading structure
  • Timetable: Remediation in 2024

Barrier: Meaningful sequence

  • Description: The website sometimes has incorrectly displayed content that cannot be logically understood by users with screen readers.
  • Measures: Adjustment of the reading order
  • Timetable: Remediation in 2024

Barrier: Input purpose

  • Description: Some of the forms on the website are not or insufficiently recognizable.
  • Measures: Adding the HTML autocomplete attribute
  • Timetable: Remediation in 2024

Barrier: Use of color

  • Description: Important information is not sufficiently emphasized.
  • Measures: Distinguishing important, visually highlighted information from the text by means of an additional feature
  • Timetable: Remediation in 2024

Barrier: Contrast

  • Description: The website has some contrast errors.
  • Measures: Adjustment of the contrast
  • Timetable: Remediation in 2024

Barrier: Displayed content

  • Description: The website sometimes has incorrectly implemented content or functions when hovering or focusing.
  • Measures: Adaptation of content with mouse or keyboard function to requirements
  • Timetable: Remediation in 2024

Barrier: Keyboard

  • Description: Not all elements of the page can be reached and/or operated using the keyboard.
  • Measures: Adaptation of the usability
  • Timetable: Remediation in 2024

Barrier: Skipping blocks

  • Description: Some areas and contents cannot be skipped (sufficiently well).
  • Measures: Setting of jump links
  • Timetable: Remediation in 2024

Barrier: Focus order

  • Description: The focus sequence is sometimes not sensible or incorrect.
  • Measures: Adjustment of the visual arrangement
  • Timetable: Remediation in 2024

Barrier: Links

  • Description: Some links are not meaningful or insufficiently named.
  • Measures: Revision of the links
  • Timetable: Remediation in 2024

Barrier: Focus visible

  • Description: The visible keyboard focus is sometimes missing or too small.
  • Measures: Establishing a clearly visible focus
  • Timetable: Remediation in 2024

Barrier: Language of parts

  • Description: Parts in other languages are not marked accordingly in some places.
  • Measures: Marking the parts in other languages with the corresponding lang attribute
  • Timetable: Remediation in 2025

Barrier: Error marking

  • Description: Incorrect or necessary form fields are not displayed, sufficiently highlighted or described.
  • Measures: Correction of error markings with corresponding contrast
  • Timetable: Remediation in 2025

Barrier: Labels

  • Description: Some form fields are missing visible labels or instructions or they are insufficient/incorrect.
  • Measures: Adaptation of the labels
  • Timetable: Remediation in 2025

Barrier: Correction support for error entries

  • Description: Partially insufficient correction support for error entries.
  • Measures: Specification of the correction proposals
  • Timetable: Remediation in 2025

Barrier: Name, role, value 

  • Description: Some elements are not implemented correctly.
  • Measures: Revision of the elements incl. ARIA elements
  • Timetable: Remediation in 2025

Barrier: Status messages

  • Description: Status messages are sometimes not transmitted correctly to the screen reader.
  • Measures: Revision of the programming
  • Timetable: Remediation in 2025

Barrier: Easy language and German sign language

  • Description: The required information in easy language and German sign language is missing.
  • Measures: Provision of information in accordance with BITV 2.0
  • Timetable: Remediation in 2025

Barrier: Documents

  • Description: Not all uploaded documents are accessible.
  • Measures: Exchange for low-barrier documents or additional offer of low-barrier documents
  • Timetable: Remediation in 2025

Who can you contact with comments or questions about digital accessibility (feedback option)?

Would you like to report information on the implementation of accessibility or existing barriers? Are you unable to adequately perceive, operate or understand something on our website? Do you need information in an accessible form? Then please let us know.

Contact the public body contact person: 

Name: Petra Immerz
Email address: petra.immerz@fbh-berlin.de
Telephone number: +49 30 63922626

Contact the State Commissioner for Digital Accessibility

If your contact with the public body was unsuccessful, you have not received a response within one month or the response was inadequate, you can contact the State Commissioner for Digital Accessibility and seek enforcement proceedings. Please always contact the public body concerned first!

Link to contact form in German

Further information in German about enforcement proceedings and the State Commissioner for Digital Accessibility