Accessibility Statement

This accessibility statement applies to the website under the domain of kooperationen.zew.de. The ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research is committed to making the website kooperationen.zew.de accessible in accordance with the Act on Equal Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities (Behindertengleichstellungsgesetz – BGG) and the Accessible Information Technology Ordinance (Barrierefreie Informationstechnik-Verordnung – BITV 2.0).

The accessibility requirements arise from Section 3 Articles 1–4 and Section 4 of the BITV 2.0, which was implemented on the basis of Section 12d of the BGG.
This website has been tested for compliance with these requirements by ZEW on 17 November 2023.
This website is only partly compliant with the aforementioned requirements due to the non-compliances listed below.

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ZEW is continuously working on improving accessibility on its websites and is successively implementing further measures to remove barriers.
The media design team at ZEW is developing a concept for gradually making the PDFs barrier-free and is successively implementing this concept. New publications are created according to accessibility criteria as far as possible.

Illustrations and controls

For informative as well as linked illustrations and control elements, meaningful text alternatives or labels are not always available.

Accordion

Keyboard operability is not yet available for accordion elements.

PDF documents

The PDF documents embedded on the page are for the most part not accessible without barriers.

Headings

A sensible headline hierarchy is not consistently adhered to on all web pages, especially when boxes or news are included on the page.

Links

• With HTML links, the link targets are not always apparent from the link texts.
• File links do not always contain all the information required for accessibility.