Statement about accessibility

This statement about accessibility applies to https://bibml-nds.gbv.de/. It contains information about accessibility of this website corresponding to § 9b Lower Saxonian Law of Equalisation of Disabled People (Niedersächsisches Behindertengleichstellungsgesetz; NBGG) and regarding contact information.

Accessibility assessment

The presented contents are only partly accessible. The European Standard EN 301 549 V.1.1.2 (2015-04) lists the minimum requirements for accessible websites and mobile applications (reason number 37 of the EU Directive 2016/2101). This website was tested by an agency by order of the appointee for humans with disabilities in Lower Saxony. The findings of a following report by this agency are going to be implemented. Tests with humans with disabilities and also with assistive technologies, were not conducted.

Complete accessibility could not be attained because of too few programming hours.

Incompatibility with the Regulation of Accessible Information Technology (BITV 2.0) / Lower Saxonian Law of Equalisation of Disabled People (Niedersächsisches Behindertengleichstellungsgesetz)

• Some contents cannot be noticed by blind people.
• There is no support for persons with limited abilities in cognition, speaking or learning.
• The meaning of some elements is not clarified enough.
• Many parts of the website cannot be used by keyboard.
• Users of assistive technologies probably cannot overlook contents of the website easily and cannot access interesting contents specifically.

Creation of this accessibility statement

This statement was created on 9th September 2020 and lastly updated on 7th May 2024. It is based on a self-assessment.

Report barriers: Feedback function and contact information

To convey existing barriers, if you have questions about the state of accessibility or if you want to get information about the not-accessible parts of the website please write to: bibliothek@ml.niedersachsen.de

Alternatively, you can write to the following address:

Lower Saxonian Ministry of Food, Agriculture, and Customer Protection
Library
Calenberger Straße 2
30169 Hannover

Conciliation process

If you receive answers by the above-mentioned contact which are not satisfying to you, you can send a request for conciliation according to the Lower Saxonian Law of Equalisation of Disabled People (Niedersächsisches Behindertengleichstellungsgesetz; NBGG) to the conciliation board at the office of the appointee for humans with disabilities in Lower Saxony. The task of this conciliation board (§ 9 d NBGG) is to settle arguments about accessibility in IT between humans with disabilities and the federal state of Lower Saxony. The conciliation is free of charge. Legal counsel is not necessary.

You can contact the conciliation board directly:

Telephone: 0511/120-4010
E-Mail: schlichtungsstelle@ms.niedersachsen.de

This also applies to organisations of humans with disabilities which are recognised according to § 15 paragraph 3 Law of Equalisation of Disabled People (Behindertengleichstellungsgesetz) by the German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.