Accessibility of the website
Avoinhallinto.fi accessibility statement 04.09.2024
We will explain how the Ministry of Finance’s Avoinhallinto.fi website complies with the Act on the Provision of Digital Services in this accessibility statement including what deficiencies there are in the accessibility of the website and how you can give us feedback on accessibility issues. We will take accessibility into account when developing the service.
1. Status of service accessibility
The Avoinhallinto.fi website largely meets the A and AA accessibility criteria required by law (WCAG criteria 2.2.). However, there are still shortcomings in accessibility on the website, the most important of which are described in more detail later in the report.
An accessibility audit has been commissioned from a technical supplier on the accessibility of the website, and as a result errors related to accessibility have been corrected. We also observe the accessibility of the service ourselves with a separate utility programme and detected accessibility shortcomings are corrected in cooperation with the supplier.
2. Did you notice any deficiencies in accessibility?
We are constantly striving to improve the accessibility of the online service. If you find any problems on this site that are not described in this statement, please let us know. We are also happy to receive other observations and suggestions for improvements concerning the accessibility of the website.
You can send your feedback by email to the email address on page https://vm.fi/en/feedback. The page provides instructions on giving feedback on accessibility.
3. Monitoring accessibility
The Regional State Administrative Agency for Southern Finland monitors the implementation of accessibility requirements. If you are not satisfied with the response or do not receive any response within two weeks, you can give feedback to the Regional State Administrative Agency for Southern Finland. The website of the Regional State Administrative Agency for Southern Finland provides detailed information on how to lodge a complaint and how to process the matter.
Regional State Administrative Agency for Southern Finland
Accessibility Control Unit
Accessibility requirements online service https://www.saavutettavuusvaatimukset.fi/en
4. More detailed information on technical accessibility
Content that still needs to be corrected
The files may contain visual elements and diagrams with missing text alternatives (WCAG 1.1.1)
Table structures in files may have deficiencies that hamper screen reader use, such as table structures used to construct text, missing programmatic column headings (WCAG 1.3.1)
There are pages on the website where heading is not started from the h 1 element and therefore there may be header level jumps. (WCAG 1.3.1)
Finnish content on the Swedish website. The website contains untranslated content in different language versions. (WCAG 3.1.2)
In addition, the online service offers third-party services (e.g. YouTube videos and Google maps map) that we cannot technically influence with regard to accessibility.
Content not covered by legislation
The website contains content that is not subject to the requirements of legislation. Such content includes
- content published by external parties in the service that is not produced, funded or supervised by the service provider itself.
- files published before 23.9.2018
- live video or audio broadcasts not recorded for storage or re-publication