Declaration of Website Accessibility

The University of Hohenheim makes every effort to make its website www.uni-hohenheim.de accessible in accordance with Sec. 10(1) of the State Equal Opportunities for the Disabled Act (L-BGG).

This declaration on accessibility applies to the website of the University of Hohenheim www.uni-hohenheim.de. This includes all public and access-restricted websites, sub-pages, and subsequent pages of the domain (in future referred to as the website of the University of Hohenheim ) for which the University of Hohenheim is responsible in terms of content, appearance, and technical functions, as well as the associated pictorial, moving image, and text content.

All other external, legally, organizationally, and technically independent institutions whose websites are linked to the University of Hohenheim or refer to the University of Hohenheim are responsible for their own content in the sense of their operators and are not covered or included by this declaration.

1. Status of compatibility with the requirements

The web presence of the University of Hohenheim is partially compatible with Sec. 10(1) L-BGG due to the following incompatibilities.

The incompatibilities are listed below.

2. Non-accessible content

The content listed below is not accessible for the following reasons:

a) Incompatibility with Sec. 10(1) L-BGG

No audio descriptors are provided for video and audio content, and subtitles are not yet available for all videos.
Graphic elements and images have not been fully supplemented with alternatives or alternative texts.
Links can be inaccessible.
Documents such as PDF files or Office documents are not provided in accessible versions.
Services in German sign language in accordance with Section 10 (1) sentence 3 L-BGG in conjunction with Section 4 BITV 2.0 and information in easy language or easy-to-read are not yet available on the University of Hohenheim website.

b) Unreasonable burden

Due to the unreasonable burden (according to Sec. 10(1) L-BGG) required to implement these accessibility features, the above has not yet been implemented. The University of Hohenheim endeavors to improve this immediately.

3. Preparation of this declaration on accessibility

This declaration was last revised on September 26, 2024. The revision of the declaration is based on a BITV self-assessment carried out by the University of Hohenheim.

4. Feedback and contact details

The University of Hohenheim is working on breaking down the existing barriers to accessibility.

If you would like to provide feedback on any accessibility compliance deficiencies, please send your feedback, citing the specific web page and barrier, to the

Web Content and Development Office
webredaktion@uni-hohenheim.de

You can also use the feedback link at the bottom of each web page.

You can also contact the following authorities:

Representative for students with a disability or a chronic illness
rotraud.konca@uni-hohenheim.de

Representative for severely disabled persons
sv@verwaltung.uni-hohenheim.de

5. Arbitration Service

In order to ensure that the University of Hohenheim's website meets the requirements described in § 10(1) L-BGG, you can contact the Web Editing & Development Department and provide feedback. You will find the relevant contact details under point 4 of this declaration.

If we do not answer you or do not answer you satisfactorily within four weeks of receiving your request, you can contact the arbitration board of the Landeszentrum Barrierefreiheit (LZ-BARR). You can contact the arbitration board as follows:

You can contact the representative of the state government for the interests of people with disabilities as follows:

Landeszentrum Barrierefreiheit
Schlichtungsstelle
Else-Josenhans-Straße 6
70173 Stuttgart
Tel. +49 711 123-39375
Email: schlichtung@barrierefreiheit.bwl.de
Website: https://barrierefreiheit-bw.de/

The arbitration process is free of charge.

Reference is made here to the possibility of the right of action by associations under § 12(1) sentence 1 no. 4, L-BGG.