Accessibility Statement

Information about this website’s accessibility

The ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research strives to provide accessibility to its websites in line with § 10 paragraph 1 of the Baden-Württemberg State Disability Equality Act (L-BGG).

This accessibility information applies to the website www.zew.de.

Compliance with accessibility regulations

The website partially complies with § 10 paragraph 1 L-BGG due to the following incompatibilities.

Non-accessible content

The following content is not accessible for the reasons mentioned:

a) Incompatibility with § 10 paragraph 1 L-BGG    

  • Some images have not yet received alternative text (alt text) in compliance with WCAG success criterion 1.1.1.
  • The video on the homepage, #30JahreZEW, does not have the accompanying audio description nor the alternative media type required by WCAG success criteria 1.2.3 and 1.2.5.
  • The website contains specific font graphics that are not in accordance with WCAG success criterion 1.4.5.
  • The website contains errors in the source code that prevent accessible use of the cookie banner, and therefore does not fulfil WCAG success criterion 4.1.1. The third-party provider Cookiebot/Usercentrics endeavours to correct these errors in the course of 2024 (as of February 2024).
  • The content in German Sign Language is currently being developed and will be published online throughout 2024.
  • PDF documents:
    Description: Most PDF documents on the site are not accessible for all. This applies especially to older publications, ZEW Discussion Papers and editorial PDF documents.
    Measures: The communications team at ZEW is working on a plan to improve the accessibility of PDF documents and will gradually implement these changes. New publications are designed pursuant to accessibility criteria whenever possible.

Feedback and contact

Did you have problems accessing the contents of the website www.zew.de? Or do you have questions regarding accessibility?
Please contact the Press Relations and Editing team at info@zew.de or via our contact form “Report Barrier”.

You can also contact us by mail or phone:
ZEW – Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH Mannheim 
Communications Unit, Press Relations and Editing
L7, 1
68161 Mannheim
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)621 1235-322

Arbitration procedures

If you consider that these websites are not accessible, you can inform the contact mentioned in Section 4.

If you do not receive a response from us within four weeks of receiving your enquiry, or if the response is unsatisfactory, you can contact the arbitration service of the Landeszentrum für Barrierefreiheit (LZ-BARR, State Centre for Accessibility) at:

Landeszentrum Barrierefreiheit
Schlichtungsstelle
Else-Josenhans-Straße 6
70173 Stuttgart
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)711-123-39375
E-mail: schlichtung@barrierefreiheit.bwl.de

The arbitration procedure is free of charge.

Please note the right to class action as per § 12 paragraph 1 sentence 1 number 4 L-BGG.