Ac­ces­si­bi­li­ty

Wübben Stif­tung Wis­sen­schaft has set itself the goal of making this website and other means of com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on as ac­ces­si­ble as pos­si­ble. Ac­ces­si­bi­li­ty means the grea­test pos­si­ble absence of tech­ni­cal, legal, fi­nan­ci­al, com­mu­ni­ca­ti­ve, design and social bar­ri­ers in order to be able to per­cei­ve and process content. Ac­ces­si­bi­li­ty im­pro­ves access and use for all vi­si­tors and users.

Ac­ces­si­bi­li­ty should be based on the legal princi­ples (§§12, 12a BGG) as well as the stan­dards of BITV 2.0 and the Web Content Ac­ces­si­bi­li­ty Gui­de­li­nes (WCAG) 2.1, which are de­ve­lo­ped and con­ti­nuous­ly de­ve­lo­ped by the W3C, the World Wide Web Con­sor­ti­um. Ac­cord­ing to these gui­de­li­nes, all com­pon­ents of a website should have the fol­lo­wing cha­rac­te­ris­tics:

  • per­cep­ti­ble,
  • ope­ra­ble,
  • com­pre­hen­si­ble,
  • robust.

The pursuit of ac­ces­si­bi­li­ty has an in­flu­ence on the de­ve­lop­ment of the tech­ni­cal in­fra­st­ruc­tu­re, on data ma­nage­ment and the in­ter­face, as well as on edi­to­ri­al pro­ces­ses, text pro­duc­tion and mul­ti­lin­gua­lism, among other things.

The website of the Wübben Stif­tung Wis­sen­schaft com­plies with a wide range of re­qui­re­ments for re­du­cing bar­ri­ers on the In­ter­net:

  • suf­fi­ci­ent­ly large and easy-to-read ty­po­gra­phy,
  • the ability to na­vi­ga­te quickly on a page using jump labels,
  • suf­fi­ci­ent con­trast between font and back­ground,
  • clear re­co­gniza­bi­li­ty and dif­fe­ren­tia­ti­on of fo­re­ground and back­ground as well as in­ter­ac­tion fields,
  • ARIA at­tri­bu­tes and al­ter­na­ti­ve texts (alt texts) for non-text media (e.g. photos with alt texts),
  • Com­ple­te func­tio­n­a­li­ty through key­board ope­ra­ti­on,
  • tech­ni­cal ro­bust­ness (com­pa­ti­bi­li­ty with current brow­sers, etc.).

If you have any further ques­ti­ons about the ac­ces­si­ble de­ve­lop­ment of our website, please contact us at info@w-s-w.org .