Accessibility Declaration

This accessibility declaration is valid for the website of Hochschule Bielefeld – University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSBI), which can be accessed at https://www.hsbi.de/.

HSBI advocates for ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities.

HSBI thus strives to make its website accessible in accordance with Section 10(1) of NRW’s Act on the Equality of People with Disabilities (Landesbehindertengleichstellungsgesetz – L-BGG).

The contents below have not yet been made accessible

  • Some elements do not have alternative text
  • Some videos do not have subtitles
  • Some pages do not conform with the headline structure
  • Some text elements do not ensure the 3:1 minimum contrast ratio
  • Some elements cannot be operated without a mouse
  • Some elements are not (consistently) declared semantically

Creation of this accessibility declaration

This declaration was created on 24 April 2025.

Our website was independently tested by third parties at Academic Hero using the BITV Test according to WCAG 2.1. You can view the full test on which the declaration is based here.

This declaration was last reviewed on 24 April 2025.

Status of conformity with the requirements

This website partly conforms with the Federal and NRW’s Acts on the Equality of People with Disabilities (BGG & LGG), with the Ordinance on Accessible Information Technology (Barrierefreie Informationstechnik-Verordnung – BITV) and with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1.

Reason

HSBI has a very extensive website of at least several hundred individual pages. Due to the disproportionate burden according to the Federal and NRW’s Acts on the Equality of People with Disabilities, the website has not yet been designed to be fully accessible. Technical implementation will be carried out gradually.

Feedback and contact details

HSBI is working on reducing existing accessibility issues.

If, when using the website,

  • You have accessibility problems,
  • You see contents that violate general accessibility recommendations or that do not conform with the WCAG,
  • You see contents that are unclear and should be phrased differently or
  • You have other questions on the implementation of accessibility guidelines,

Please contact us by e-mail at:
info@hsbi.de

As an alternative, you can contact us by post:

Hochschule Bielefeld
Interaktion 1
Postfach 10 11 13
D-33511 Bielefeld

Enforcement and arbitration procedures

If no satisfactory solution was found after your feedback to the above-mentioned contact, you can turn to the conciliation body for accessible information technology (Schlichtungsstelle für barrierefreie Informationstechnik). The conciliation body’s task is to facilitate extrajudicial resolutions in conflicts on accessibility between people with disabilities and public authorities. The arbitration procedure is free of charge. No legal assistance is necessary.

Points of contact

In North Rhine-Westphalia, the Ombudsstelle für barrierefreie Informationstechnik is the central point of contact if you encounter accessibility issues in digital offers of public authorities. It will assist you in reporting such issues and finding solutions.

Tel: +49.211.855-3451
E-mail: ombudsstelle-barrierefreie-it@mags.nrw.de
Website: http://mags.nrw/ombudsstelle-barrierefreie-informationstechnik