Declaration of accessibility

Declaration on accessibility

The Austrian Energy Agency endeavours to make its website accessible in accordance with the Web Accessibility Act (WZG) as amended to implement 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 (Official Journal L 327, 2.12.2016, p. 1).

This accessibility statement applies to the website hypa.at

Status of conformity with the requirements

This website is compliant with conformance level AA of the "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Web - WCAG 2.1" and the applicable European Standard EN 301 549 V2.1.2 (2018-08).

Creation of this accessibility statement

This declaration was created on 18 June 2023.

The assessment of the website's compliance with the requirements of Directive (EU) 2016/2102 was carried out by a third party (Getdesigned GmbH). Assessment of the basic components of selected websites by means of an evaluation according to WCAG 2.1 AA in 2022.

Feedback and contact details

The offers and services on this website are constantly being improved, exchanged and expanded. Usability and accessibility are very important to us.

If you notice any barriers that prevent you from using our website, please let us know by e-mail.

We will check your enquiry and contact you as soon as possible.

Please send all messages and suggestions to office(at)energyagency.at with the subject "Report of a barrier on the website www.hypa.at". Please describe the problem and provide us with the URL(s) of the affected website.

Enforcement procedure

If you do not receive a satisfactory response from the above contact option, you can submit a complaint to the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG). The FFG accepts complaints electronically via the contact form.

To the contact form of the complaints office

These complaints are examined by the FFG to determine whether they relate to violations of the provisions of the Web Accessibility Act, in particular deficiencies in compliance with accessibility requirements, by the federal government or an organisation attributable to it.

If the complaint is justified, the FFG must issue recommendations for action to the federal government or the legal entities concerned and propose measures to remedy the deficiencies in question.

Further information on the complaints procedure