Accessibility Statement

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.

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:

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.
• 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: From July 2024, those documents on the institute's website that are of interest to a broad target group and are also central to the implementation of ZEW's transfer mandate will be accessible. These are in particular the ZEW Financial Market Report and ZEW Policy Briefs. Other publication formats will be successively made accessible.

Creation of this accessibility statement

This information was compiled on 1 September 2022.

The compliance check was based on an external review conducted on 26 November 2024.

The statement was last updated on 12 December 2024.

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 1235-303

Arbitration procedures

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

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.