We strive to make this website or mobile application accessible. The declaration of accessibility is required by the Bremen Equal Opportunities for Disabled Persons Act (BremBGG). The technical requirements for accessibility are derived from the Barrier-Free Information Technology Ordinance (BITV 2.0).
This digital accessibility statement applies to the website of Hochschule Bremen published at https://www.hs-bremen.de.
On 15 June 2022, the Central Office for Accessible Information Technology (Zentralstelle für barrierefreie Informationstechnik) reviewed the website with regard to accessibility requirements. This was a simplified review, meaning that only a small selection of test criteria from the EN 301 549 standard, which is legally enshrined in BITV 2.0, were checked. The test report, which was sent to HSB in December 2022, identified both technical and editorial deficiencies. The technical deficiencies were addressed together with the technical service provider and have been rectified. We are working with the decentralised web editors to gradually reduce the editorial deficiencies.
This service is essentially barrier-free / accessible. The requirements of BITV 2.0 are essentially met.
Compliance with the requirements was verified on the basis of a self-assessment carried out on 4 November 2025.
Subareas that are not or not yet barrier-free / accessible:
Description: Most PDF and DOC documents are not available in an accessible format.
Measures: When creating new PDF files, the central editorial team ensures that they are designed to be accessible. If we receive PDFs from third parties and notice that they are not accessible, we point this out to them and, if possible, offer an accessible alternative as hypertext directly on the website.
Description: Some audio and video files do not yet have audio descriptions or subtitles.
Measures: Audio descriptions and subtitles are being added gradually. The creation of audio descriptions and subtitles is included in the planning for the production of new audio and video files. Where possible, videos are made available on YouTube, where automatically generated subtitles are available.
Description: It cannot be ruled out that alternative texts for some graphics or images are missing or are not meaningful.
Measures: The importance and use of alternative texts is part of HSB's internal editorial training. Decentralised editors are also reminded of this regularly (at least once a year).
Description: It cannot be ruled out that German-language content is not labelled. Technically, this is a possibility.
Measures: The central web editorial team points this out to decentralised editors in internal training sessions.
Description: Information about this website is currently only available in German Sign Language (Deutsche Gebärdensprache DGS).
Description: Information about this website is currently only available in German easy language (Leichte Sprache), but not in Easy English.
This statement was created on 10 March 2026.
We would like to further improve our services. Please feel free to send us your problems and questions regarding digital accessibility by email to redaktion@hs-bremen.de.
If your contact with the public body was not successful, you can contact the Central Office for Accessible Information Technology (Zentralstelle für barrierefreie Informationstechnik). They can also provide further information on enforcement.