Welcome, this is an accessibility statement of Aalto University
This accessibility statement concerns the service wiki.aalto.fi and has been written/updated on 8 February 2023. The service is bound by the Act on the Provision of Digital Services (306/2019), which requires the accessibility of public online services.
The accessibility has been reviewed by an external expert organisation.
Conformance status of the digital service
Does not meet the critical accessibility criteria
Non-accessible content
1. Not covered by the legislation
- contents used for teaching in a limited group for a fixed period of time
- contents that are published in the system by users and other external parties and not produced, funded or monitored by the service provider
- maps that are not intended to be navigable (e.g. weather and topographic maps)
- files used by office software (e.g. doc, pdf, odt) published before 23 September 2018
- online contents archived before 23 September 2019
- video and audio recordings published before 23 September 2020
The service contains a large number of documents and visual materials that are difficult to transform into an accessible format.
3. The website is not yet fully compliant with the Act on the Provision of Digital Services (306/2019).
Perceivable: Pictures and graphical symbols
Non-accessible content and its shortcomings
The service and its contents contain a large number of pictures and graphical symbols for which there is no alternative text or that have not been hidden from assistive technologies.
Accessibility criteria not met:
- 1.1.1 Non-text content
Perceivable: Vague section headings
Non-accessible content and its shortcomings
The service user interfaces and contents do not comply with the WCAG recommendation for semantic heading hierarchy.
Accessibility criteria not met:
- 1.3.1 Info and Relationships
Perceivable: Problems with responsiveness
Non-accessible content and its shortcomings
When scaling the user interface, the elements and contents do not comply with the settings, and the user interfaces are difficult to use.
Accessibility criteria not met:
- 1.4.10 Reflow
Perceivable: Problems with contrast
Non-accessible content and its shortcomings
The user interface elements and contents of the service have plenty of problems with contrast.
Accessibility criteria not met:
- 1.4.3 Contrast (Minimum)
Perceivable: The text cannot be resized
Non-accessible content and its shortcomings
When resizing text, the change does not affect all user interface elements or contents. This problem occurs particularly when using mobile browsers.
Accessibility criteria not met:
- 1.4.4 Resize text
Perceivable: Form fields without names
Non-accessible content and its shortcomings
The service has forms with text fields that have not been semantically linked to the field name that is visible on the screen. Such problems occur in, e.g. the People Directory as well as on the Advanced search and Profile pages.
Accessibility criteria not met:
- 1.3.1 Info and Relationships
Perceivable:
Non-accessible content and its shortcomings
Accessibility criteria not met:
Operable: Insufficient focus visible
Non-accessible content and its shortcomings
The focus indicator is poorly visible particularly to users with low vision.
Accessibility criteria not met:
- 2.4.7 Focus Visible
Operable: Insufficient support for keyboard use
Non-accessible content and its shortcomings
All the interactive elements of the service cannot be accessed with a keyboard. Some of the elements cannot be activated using a keyboard although they can receive keyboard focus.
Accessibility criteria not met:
- 2.1.1 Keyboard
Operable: Tab order
Non-accessible content and its shortcomings
On some pages, such as on the profile editing page and certain pop-up windows, the tab order does not correspond to the visual sequence of the contents.
Accessibility criteria not met:
- 2.4.3 Focus Order
Operable: Skip links that do not work
Non-accessible content and its shortcomings
The Move to Contents (Siirry sisältöön) skip link of the service does not become visible when it receives keyboard focus. Skip links and the links for transferring between blocks do not work.
Accessibility criteria not met:
- 2.4.1 Bypass Blocks
Operable:
Non-accessible content and its shortcomings
Accessibility criteria not met:
Understandable: Multiple languages
Non-accessible content and its shortcomings
The user interfaces and contents often use a language that is different from the language defined for the page contents in its language attribute and no semantic language attribute has been defined for those contents.
Accessibility criteria not met:
- 3.1.2 Language of Parts
Understandable:
Non-accessible content and its shortcomings
Accessibility criteria not met:
Robust: Interactive elements that do not work
Non-accessible content and its shortcomings
The service has multiple elements with roles or features that cannot be identified using assistive technologies. As a result, some features only work when using a mouse.
Accessibility criteria not met:
- 4.1.2 Name, Role, Value
Robust:
Non-accessible content and its shortcomings
Accessibility criteria not met:
Did you notice a shortcoming in the accessibility of our digital service? Please let us know and we will do our best to correct the situation.
By email:
Supervisory authority
If you encounter any problems with accessibility on the website, first send your feedback to us, the website administrator. We will respond to your feedback within 14 days. If you are not satisfied with the response you have received from us, or if our response does not arrive within 14 days, you may file a complaint with the supervisory authority, which is the Regional State Administrative Agency for Southern Finland Opens in a new window. The website of the Regional State Administrative Agency for Southern Finland gives detailed instructions on how complaints are filed and processed.
Contact details of the supervisory authority
Regional State Administrative Agency for Southern Finland
Accessibility Monitoring Unit
www.saavutettavuusvaatimukset.fi
saavutettavuus(at)avi.fi
tel. exchange 0295 016 000