DECLARATION ON ACCESSIBILITY

Heidelberg University Hospital endeavours to make its website accessible without barriers in accordance with Section 10 (1) of the State Disability Equality Act (L-BGG).

This declaration on accessibility applies exclusively to the content at https://www.klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de/.

1. STATUS OF COMPATIBILITY WITH REQUIREMENTS

This website is partially compatible with Section 10(1) of the L-BGG due to the following exceptions.

2. NON-ACCESSIBLE CONTENT

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

• Graphics or images included in the pages are currently not fully supplemented by text descriptions.
• Included videos currently do not have subtitles or transcription available. In the case of newly posted videos, we endeavour to add subtitles as soon as possible after publication.
• In the case of links, the aim or purpose of the link is sometimes not clear from the link text.
• The navigation has sub-levels with filters, some of which cannot be accessed using the keyboard. For this purpose, we offer appropriate alternatives for navigation on the pages of the main navigation elements. Alternatively, you will find a sitemap of all pages of the main navigation here.
• PDF, Word, Excel or PowerPoint documents that are offered for download on the website are not all currently available in accessible versions. We will endeavour to create newly posted PDF files in an accessible version or to replace them with such a version.

3. CREATION OF THIS ACCESSIBILITY STATEMENT

This statement was created on 19.07.2021. The statement was last reviewed on 06/03/2023.

4. FEEDBACK AND CONTACT DETAILS

If you encounter any problems that we can fix, please let us know.
Please contact us if you find any of the following:

• Content that is difficult to access,
• content that does not comply with the requirements of the L-BGG.

Heidelberg University Hospital
Im Neuenheimer Feld 672
69120 Heidelberg

E-mail: contact(at)med.uni-heidelberg.de

5. ENFORCEMENT PROCEDURES

In order to ensure that this website complies with the requirements described in Section 10, Paragraph 1 of the L-BGG, you can contact Heidelberg University Hospital and provide appropriate feedback. The relevant contact details can be found in section 4 of this statement.

If Heidelberg University Hospital does not respond to your enquiry within the period provided for in section 8 sentence 1 of the L-BGG-DVO, you can contact the State Government Commissioner for Matters relating to Persons with Disabilities or the municipal commissioners for matters relating to persons with disabilities within the framework of the ombudsman function described in section 14 paragraph 2 of the L-BGG and section 15 paragraph 3 sentence 2 of the L-BGG.

You can contact the State Government Commissioner for Matters relating to Persons with Disabilities as follows:

State Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities Simone Fischer
Office of the State Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities:
Else-Josenhans-Straße 6
70173 Stuttgart
Phone: 0711 279 3360
E-mail: Post office(at)bfbmb.bwl.de

You can find out the contact details of the municipal representative for the interests of persons with disabilities responsible for you on the website of the city or district in which you have your permanent residence.

Please note the possibility of taking legal action in accordance with section 12(1) sentence 1 number 4 of the L-BGG.