Access­ib­il­ity statement

The Town of Bad Weißen­stadt am See is com­mit­ted to mak­ing its web­site access­ible in accord­ance with the Bav­ari­an Digit­al Ordin­ance (Bay­erische Digit­al­ver­or­d­nung, Bay­DiV) in con­junc­tion with the Bav­ari­an Dis­ab­il­ity Equal­ity Act (Bay­erisches Behinder­tengleich­s­tel­lungs­ge­setz, Bay­BGG) and Dir­ect­ive (EU) 2016/2102. The applic­able bench­marks are the require­ments of sec­tion 9 (1) Bay­DiV in con­junc­tion with sec­tion 3 (1) to (4) of the Ger­man Bar­ri­er-Free Inform­a­tion Tech­no­logy Ordin­ance (BITV 2.0) and the har­mon­ised European stand­ard EN 301 549, which essen­tially cor­res­pond to the Web Con­tent Access­ib­il­ity Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at con­form­ance level AA. Addi­tion­al con­tent in Ger­man Sign Lan­guage and plain lan­guage is gov­erned by sec­tion 9 (2) BayDiV.

This is a trans­la­tion of the leg­ally bind­ing Ger­man ver­sion, which is avail­able at Erklärung zur Bar­ri­ere­freiheit. In the event of any dis­crep­ancy, the Ger­man ver­sion prevails.

Scope of this statement

This access­ib­il­ity state­ment applies to the web­site www​.weis​sen​stadt​.de, includ­ing all of its sub­pages in Ger­man and English.

It does not cov­er inde­pend­ent third-party ser­vices that are linked or embed­ded from our web­site and that are not fin­anced, developed or con­trolled by the Town of Bad Weißen­stadt am See. The respect­ive pro­viders are respons­ible for the access­ib­il­ity of those services.

Com­pli­ance status

This web­site is par­tially com­pli­ant with the require­ments set out above.

The web­site was rebuilt from the ground up in 2026. Access­ib­il­ity was a design goal from the out­set: the pages are respons­ive, oper­able by key­board, and provide skip links, semant­ic land­marks and a clear head­ing structure.

Fol­low­ing the ini­tial self-assess­ment at the end of July 2026, we removed the tech­nic­al bar­ri­ers it iden­ti­fied in a ded­ic­ated round of revi­sions. These are lis­ted below under “Meas­ures already imple­men­ted”. The remain­ing short­com­ings lie mainly with­in the body of con­tent and doc­u­ments car­ried over from earli­er ver­sions of the web­site. Full com­pli­ance has there­fore not yet been achieved.

Non-access­ible content

1. Con­tent that does not com­ply with the requirements

• Qual­ity of indi­vidu­al altern­at­ive texts for images. The media lib­rary was reviewed in full in July 2026 and altern­at­ive text was added through­out. Two lim­it­a­tions remain. Older altern­at­ive texts, main­tained by hand over the years, some­times only repeat the file name or the image title instead of describ­ing what the image shows. And images that were inser­ted dir­ectly into an art­icle some time ago carry their altern­at­ive text with­in the art­icle text itself; those images are not reached by the media lib­rary review. In both cases a screen read­er can­not con­vey the con­tent of the image, or can do so only inad­equately (breach of WCAG 1.1.1). We are work­ing through this leg­acy con­tent step by step.
• Audio and video con­tent without altern­at­ives. No tran­scripts or cap­tions are yet avail­able for the audio guides of the digit­al town tour or for pro­mo­tion­al videos (breach of WCAG 1.2.1 to 1.2.3).
• PDF and office doc­u­ments. The major­ity of the doc­u­ments we provide – in par­tic­u­lar stat­utes, ordin­ances, forms, bro­chures and event pro­grammes – are not tagged and can there­fore only be inter­preted by screen read­ers to a lim­ited extent, or not at all (breach of WCAG 1.3.1 / 1.4.5).

2. Con­tent for which access­ible design would impose a dis­pro­por­tion­ate burden

A large num­ber of PDF doc­u­ments pro­duced over many years is avail­able for down­load on our web­site. Con­vert­ing this leg­acy col­lec­tion into access­ible doc­u­ments ret­ro­spect­ively and in full would exceed the staff­ing and fin­an­cial capa­city of a town of our size. In this respect we invoke the dis­pro­por­tion­ate bur­den exemp­tion under Art­icle 5 of Dir­ect­ive (EU) 2016/2102 in con­junc­tion with the BayDiV.

We apply the fol­low­ing principles:

• Newly pub­lished doc­u­ments are pro­gress­ively being cre­ated in access­ible form.
• Doc­u­ments required for ongo­ing admin­is­trat­ive pro­ced­ures – in par­tic­u­lar forms and stat­utes cur­rently in force – are being revised as a priority.
• On request, we will provide the con­tent of indi­vidu­al doc­u­ments in an access­ible form at short notice, for example as a plain text file, as an access­ible ver­sion, or verbally over the tele­phone. Our con­tact details are giv­en below.

3. Con­tent that falls out­side the scope of the legislation

• Third-party con­tent. Embed­ded ser­vices that are neither fin­anced nor developed by us and are not under our con­trol – in par­tic­u­lar the tour portal, the web­cam streams, map­ping ser­vices and embed­ded videos from extern­al platforms.
• Online maps and map­ping ser­vices. Maps inten­ded for nav­ig­a­tion. The inform­a­tion essen­tial for find­ing us and get­ting in touch – postal address, tele­phone num­ber, email address and open­ing hours – is addi­tion­ally provided in text form.
• Live broad­casts. Time-based media that are broad­cast live, in par­tic­u­lar the webcams.
• Archived con­tent. Art­icles, doc­u­ments and news items pub­lished before 23 Septem­ber 2018 that have not been updated or revised since and that are not required for ongo­ing admin­is­trat­ive procedures.
• Maps and image files with­in doc­u­ments, where these are purely illus­trat­ive and the cor­res­pond­ing inform­a­tion is con­tained in the body text.

Meas­ures already implemented

Dur­ing the rebuild of the website

• Com­plete redevel­op­ment of the web­site in 2026 on the basis of a respons­ive, semantic­ally struc­tured template.
• A “Skip to con­tent” link at the top of the page for bypassing the nav­ig­a­tion – on every page tem­plate, includ­ing the cam­paign pages.
• Con­sist­ent markup of page regions as land­marks (head­er, nav­ig­a­tion, main con­tent, footer).
• Key­board oper­ab­il­ity of the nav­ig­a­tion, the lan­guage switch­er and the inter­act­ive ele­ments, with a vis­ible focus indic­at­or and menus that close with the Escape key.
• A single two-tone focus indic­at­or across the whole web­site that remains vis­ible both on light sur­faces and over photographs.
• Markup of the page lan­guage and of lan­guage changes (lang and hreflang attributes).
• Rel­at­ive font sizes and a respons­ive lay­out that adapts to enlarged dis­play and small screens.
• Labelling of form fields and but­tons, includ­ing invis­ible labels for purely graph­ic­al controls.
• Sup­port for the sys­tem set­ting for reduced motion (prefers-reduced-motion) in animations.
• Low-bar­ri­er altern­at­ives to the map dis­play through address and con­tact details in text form.
• Mean­ing­ful title attrib­utes for all embed­ded frames (map dis­play, web­cams, videos).
• Adjust­ment of the cor­por­ate design sig­nal col­our in July 2026: but­tons with white text and text set in red now achieve a con­trast ratio of at least 4.5:1.

In the revi­sion fol­low­ing the self-assess­ment (July 2026)

• Text over the pan­or­ama image. The sur­faces behind the white text in the head­er area of the home page were darkened far enough for the con­trast ratio to reach at least 4.5:1 even over the light­est con­ceiv­able sec­tion of the image. The con­trast there­fore no longer depends on which part of the pan­or­ama hap­pens to be vis­ible (WCAG 1.4.3).
• Head­ing struc­ture. The doc­u­ment out­line was reviewed and made con­sist­ent across all page tem­plates: every page has exactly one first-level head­ing, the sec­tions of the home page have head­ings of their own, and no head­ing levels are skipped (WCAG 1.3.1 / 2.4.6).
• Hid­den areas con­tain­ing focus­able con­tent. Col­lapsed areas – the search field in the head­er and the expand­able sec­tions on the admin­is­tra­tion pages – are now closed to the key­board as well. Focus can no longer jump into invis­ible con­tent (WCAG 1.3.1 / 2.4.3 / 4.1.2).
• Auto­mat­ic­ally play­ing back­ground video. The video in the cul­ture sec­tion of the home page has been giv­en a but­ton to pause and resume it. Any­one whose sys­tem is set to reduced motion is served the video already paused (WCAG 2.2.2).
• Search in the head­er. The con­trol is now a genu­ine but­ton and responds to the Enter and Space keys; the open search pan­el keeps key­board focus, reports its state, and returns focus to the but­ton when it closes (WCAG 2.1.1 / 2.4.3 / 4.1.2).
• Tabs and expand­able sec­tions. The tabs on the admin­is­tra­tion pages are marked up as tabs, can be oper­ated with the arrow keys, and report which tab is cur­rently selec­ted. The expand­able sec­tions report wheth­er they are open or closed (WCAG 4.1.2).
• Event cal­en­dar and filtered list­ings. The num­ber of res­ults in the event cal­en­dar and in the accom­mod­a­tion and res­taur­ant dir­ect­or­ies is announced on every change of fil­ter, and the res­ults list reports while it is reload­ing (WCAG 4.1.3).
• Image links. Links that wrap noth­ing but an image – gal­ler­ies, fea­tured images, enlarge­ments – have been giv­en labels of their own. Screen read­ers no longer read out the file address instead (WCAG 2.4.4 / 4.1.2).
• Altern­at­ive text in the media lib­rary. The image col­lec­tion was reviewed in full and altern­at­ive text was added throughout.

Planned meas­ures and timetable

We are work­ing con­tinu­ously to remove the remain­ing bar­ri­ers. The fol­low­ing meas­ures are planned in particular:

• Edit­or­i­al review of the older altern­at­ive texts for mean­ing­ful­ness, start­ing with the most vis­ited pages and the over­view pages for accom­mod­a­tion pro­viders and restaurants.
• Adding altern­at­ive text for images that were inser­ted dir­ectly into older articles.
• Provid­ing tran­scripts for the audio guides of the digit­al town tour and cap­tions for pro­mo­tion­al videos.
• Pro­gress­ively migrat­ing forms and inform­a­tion sheets from PDF to access­ible online forms and HTML pages.
• Assess­ing wheth­er an addi­tion­al vol­un­tary explan­at­ory video in Ger­man Sign Lan­guage cov­er­ing the key con­tent and nav­ig­a­tion of this web­site can be provided.
• Train­ing our edit­or­i­al staff in access­ible con­tent main­ten­ance and intro­du­cing bind­ing require­ments for new documents.

Pre­par­a­tion of this access­ib­il­ity statement

This state­ment was pre­pared on 30 July 2026.

It is based on a self-assess­ment car­ried out by the Town of Bad Weißen­stadt am See with tech­nic­al sup­port from the agency com­mis­sioned to devel­op the site. The home page, the core page tem­plates and a selec­tion of rep­res­ent­at­ive sub­pages were assessed against the require­ments of BITV 2.0 and EN 301 549. Auto­mated test­ing tools were used along­side manu­al test­ing of key­board oper­a­tion, head­ing struc­ture and col­our contrast.

The inform­a­tion was last reviewed on 18 August 2026. The leg­al clas­si­fic­a­tion of con­tent in Ger­man Sign Lan­guage was updated to reflect sec­tion 9 (2) Bay­DiV. The tech­nic­al list of short­com­ings reflects the situ­ation after the revi­sion of 31 July 2026. We review and update this state­ment at least once a year and whenev­er sub­stan­tial changes are made to the website.

Report­ing a bar­ri­er – feed­back and contact

Have you come across a bar­ri­er on our web­site? Is con­tent inac­cess­ible to you? Please get in touch. We will look into your report and, if you wish, provide the inform­a­tion you need in a form that is access­ible to you.

Stadt Bad Weißen­stadt am See
Kirch­platz 1
95163 Bad Weißen­stadt am See
Ger­many

Tele­phone: +49 9253 950–0
Fax: +49 9253 950–40
Email: st.​weissenstadt@​weissenstadt.​de

You can also send us your report using our con­tact form or raise it in per­son at the cit­izens’ office. Please describe as pre­cisely as pos­sible on which page the bar­ri­er occurs and what dif­fi­culties you exper­i­enced. Cor­res­pond­ence in Ger­man is pre­ferred, but we will also respond to enquir­ies in English.

Enforce­ment procedure

If we do not respond to your enquiry with­in six weeks, or if our response is not sat­is­fact­ory, you may con­tact the enforce­ment body for access­ible inform­a­tion tech­no­logy in Bav­aria. On request, it will exam­ine wheth­er the access­ib­il­ity require­ments are being met. The pro­ced­ure is free of charge for you.

Durch­set­zungs- und Über­wachungss­telle für bar­ri­ere­freie Inform­a­tion­s­tech­nik (Enforce­ment and Mon­it­or­ing Body for Access­ible Inform­a­tion Tech­no­logy)
Landes­amt für Digit­al­is­ier­ung, Breit­band und Ver­mes­sung
IT-Dienstleis­tung­szen­trum des Freistaats Bay­ern
St.-Martin-Straße 47
81541 München
Ger­many

Email: bitv@​ldbv.​bayern.​de
Web­site: www​.ldbv​.bay​ern​.de/​d​i​g​i​t​a​l​i​s​i​e​r​u​n​g​/​b​i​t​v​.​h​tml

You may also con­tact the Com­mis­sion­er of the Bav­ari­an State Gov­ern­ment for the Interests of People with Dis­ab­il­it­ies: www​.behinder​ten​beauftragte​.bay​ern​.de.

This state­ment in plain language

This is the web­site of the town of Bad Weißen­stadt am See.
The web­site is called: www​.weis​sen​stadt​.de

What does access­ible mean?

Access­ible means: every­one can use the web­site.
Dis­abled people can use it too.
For example:

• People who can­not see well.
• People who can­not hear well.
• People who can­not use a mouse.
• People who find dif­fi­cult texts hard to understand.

How access­ible is this website?

This web­site is partly access­ible.
We have already improved a lot.
But there are still problems.

We made this bet­ter in July 2026:

• The text on the big pic­ture at the top is easi­er to read now.
• You can stop the video on the home page now.
• You can use the web­site bet­ter with the keyboard.
• All pic­tures have a descrip­tion now.

These prob­lems still exist:

• Some pic­ture descrip­tions are old.
  They do not explain the pic­ture well enough.
• Many PDF doc­u­ments are not access­ible.
  A read­ing pro­gram can­not read them out well.
• There are videos and sound record­ings without a text version.

We are work­ing on these prob­lems.
We want to make the web­site better.

Have you found a problem?

Please tell us.
We will help you.
We can send you the inform­a­tion in anoth­er way.
For example as a simple text.
Or we can tell you the inform­a­tion on the telephone.

This is how you can reach us:

Stadt Bad Weißen­stadt am See
Kirch­platz 1
95163 Bad Weißen­stadt am See
Ger­many
Tele­phone: +49 9253 950–0
Email: st.​weissenstadt@​weissenstadt.​de

Do you get no answer from us?

Some­times it takes too long.
Or you are not happy with our answer.
After 6 weeks you are allowed to complain.

You can com­plain here:

Durch­set­zungs- und Über­wachungss­telle für bar­ri­ere­freie Inform­a­tion­s­tech­nik
Landes­amt für Digit­al­is­ier­ung, Breit­band und Ver­mes­sung
St.-Martin-Straße 47
81541 München
Ger­many
Email: bitv@​ldbv.​bayern.​de

The com­plaint does not cost any money.

State­ment in Ger­man Sign Language

For muni­cip­al­it­ies, an explan­at­ory video in Ger­man Sign Lan­guage is recom­men­ded but not man­dat­ory under sec­tion 9 (2), third sen­tence, Bay­DiV. The Town is assess­ing wheth­er such a video can be provided vol­un­tar­ily with­in its staff­ing and fin­an­cial resources.

If you need inform­a­tion in Ger­man Sign Lan­guage, please use the con­tact details giv­en above. Wherever pos­sible we will arrange a suit­able means of com­mu­nic­a­tion, for example a sign lan­guage inter­pret­er or a writ­ten response.

Access­ib­il­ity on site

This state­ment con­cerns the digit­al access­ib­il­ity of our web­site. Inform­a­tion about the access­ible design of our facil­it­ies, paths and tour­ist ser­vices can be found on the page Reis­en für Alle (in Ger­man). You can report bar­ri­ers with­in the town – such as dam­aged pave­ments or miss­ing kerb ramps – using the Schadens­meld­er dam­age report form (in German).