In general
The website www.euraxess.hr seeks to ensure that its services are accessible to people with disabilities. Substantial funds have been invested to simplify the site’s use to make it more accessible to persons with disabilities, in the firm belief that every person has the right to a dignified, equal, comfortable, and independent life.
The Agency for Mobility and EU Programmes (AMEUP) recognises the importance of ensuring digital accessibility for all users, with particular emphasis on easier access to public services and information for persons with disabilities, applying, as far as possible, Directive (EU) 2016/2102 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 October 2016 on the accessibility of the websites and mobile applications of public sector bodies.
The AMEUP continuously improves user experience by applying relevant accessibility standards according to the Web Content Accessibility Guidance and Standardisation (WCAG 2.1) of the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), an organisation that addresses network technologies standardisation.
Accessibility Statement
As a public sector body, the Agency for Mobility and EU Programmes (AMEUP) aims to make its website www.euraxess.hr accessible in accordance with the Act on the Accessibility of Websites and Programming Solutions for Mobile Devices of Public Sector Bodies of the Republic of Croatia (OG17/19) of 23 September 2019 transposing Directive (EU) 2016/2102 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the accessibility of the websites and mobile applications of public sector bodies.
Degree of compliance
The website www.euraxess.hr complies with the Act on the accessibility of websites and programming solutions for mobile devices of public sector bodies. Most of the requirements of the European standard EN 301 549 V1.1.2 (2015-04) have been fulfilled, with some exceptions.
Accessibility of the website www.euraxess.hr
- The web page was performed in a responsive manner (content representation is customised to the screen resolution).
- There is a link to skip navigation and quickly switch to the main content at the beginning of the page for mouse-free navigation (Switch to Master Content).
- The pages have hierarchically structured content (H1>H2>H3, etc.).
- Most of the links have a “title” tag.
- Pictures have an “alt” tag.
Non-accessible content
- Google Maps is used to display an interactive folder. The Iframe method is used to display such folders, which show the content of the maps.google.com page on the mentioned web page that does not have the same level of accessibility customisation.
- The page does not have the Accessibility menu with page view customisation options.
- For mouse-free navigation, some focus elements aren’t especially visually marked.
- Individual PDF files are created by scanning printed documents.
- In accordance with Article 3 of the Act on the Accessibility of Websites and Programming Solutions for Mobile Devices of Public Sector Bodies, PDF files published before 23 September 2018, AMEUP qualifies as an archive and is exempt from compliance with the Act.
Increasing the level of accessibility
The AMEUP will implement corrective actions to address the problem of inaccessible content on its website to the maximum possible extent and continue to apply the relevant website accessibility standards in line with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommendations.
Preparation of this accessibility statement
This Statement was prepared on 24 August 2024, in accordance with the model accessibility statement in accordance with Directive (EU) 2016/2102 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the accessibility of websites and mobile applications of public sector bodies, established by Commission Implementing Decision 2018/1523 on 11 October 2018.
For the preparation of this Statement, the following self-assessment method and the accessibility testing method were used: 'axe DevTools-Web Accessibility Testing' and 'WAVE® Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool'.