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Accessibility statement

Det Kgl. Bibliotek is committed to making the website kb.dk/dcm accessible in accordance with the Danish Web Accessibility Act (Lov om tilgængelighed af offentlige organers websteder og mobilapplikationer).

If you encounter non-accessible content on kb.dk/dcm?

Here, you have the possibility to notify the responsible public sector body of any failure of the website to comply with the accessibility requirements set out in the Danish Web Accessibility Act. You may also request information that may have been exempted by the responsible public sector body pursuant to Section 1(5) (exemption of content) and Section 3(2) (disproportionate burden) of the Act.

You can contact Det Kgl. Bibliotek, if you encounter non-accessible content on kb.dk/dcm:

You should not provide confidential or sensitive personal information, such as your personal identification number or health-related information, when contacting the public sector body.

Compliance status

As a public sector body, you must indicate the extent to which your website complies with the accessibility requirements set out in the harmonised standard EN 301 549. The compliance status must reflect only the content covered by the Act and must not take into account any content lawfully exempted. The compliance status may be:

  1. The website fully complies with the Act
  2. The website partially complies with the Act (meets most requirements)
  3. The website does not comply with the Act (does not meet most requirements)

The public sector body states: The website partially complies with the Act (meets most requirements)

Evaluation Reports

The public sector body may refer to any evaluation reports.

The public sector body states: No reference to evaluation reports

Non-accessible content

The public sector body has categorised the non-accessible content on this website. Each category may contain a number of topics, which are presented with headings and explanatory text. An example of such a topic could be missing alternative text.

Non-accessible content is divided into three categories and concerns functionality or content that:

  1. does not comply with the Danish Web Accessibility Act.
  2. Does not comply with the web accessibility law and falls under the exemption for a disproportionate burden, e.g., a report or guide that is very extensive and has a small readership.
  3. is not covered by the Danish Web Accessibility Act, such as the captioning of live-streamed videos.

Not compliant with the Danish Web Accessibility Act.

Headings used for styling

Headings (the H1 and H2 elements) should only be used to structure pages. However, we have also used H1 and H2 in the page headers for styling purposes. This needs to be changed. (WCAG A 1.3.1)

Content requiring mouse interaction

In various places on the pages, supplementary information can be displayed by holding the mouse pointer over text marked with a dotted underline. This has not been implemented in a way that can be operated using the keyboard only and read aloud by a screen reader application. This needs to be changed. (WCAG AA 1.4.13 and A 2.1.1)

Missing ‘Skip to main content’ link

There is no link that allows keyboard users to skip directly to the main content of the page, i.e. to bypass repeated content like the page header, menu, etc. (WCAG A 2.4.1)

Disproportionate burden

Publishing musical scores in a web-accessible format

Musical scores are intended for visual interpretation and, as such, are not web accessible. In 2022, the DAISY Consortium published recommendations on how musical scores can be made accessible on the web. The use of the MusicXML format is recommended. See https://daisy.org/activities/projects/music-braille/accessible-music-publishing/ Encoding the large number of musical scores in the current publication in MusicXML format would require a disproportionate amount of work.

Not covered by the Act

Musical scores

Musical scores are displayed as part of the application. These are not accessible to people with visual impairments, and the scores are so old that no digital version exists that could make the musical notation accessible. (WCAG A 1.1.1) The musical scores in the application were published between 2014 and 2018. Section 1(5) in the Act: Document formats published before 23 September 2018 fall outside the scope of the Act.

Initiatives to achieve a higher level of web accessibility

The public sector body may describe the measures it is taking to achieve a higher level of web accessibility on the website.

Description by the public sector body:

Our website is continuously monitored using the accessibility testing tool procured by the Royal Danish Library, and we are continually working to resolve the accessibility issues it identifies. Our aim is to first address those issues that affect the largest number of areas across the website. In Spring 2027 we plan to work on the issues found.

Enquiry to the Danish Agency for Digital Government

The Danish Agency for Digital Government supervises compliance with the Web Accessibility Act.

Before contacting the Danish Agency for Digital Government, you must first contact the responsible authority or public sector body in order to resolve the web accessibility issue. You can do so using the contact information provided at the top of this accessibility statement.

If you find that the authority or public sector body responsible for the website does not respond satisfactorily to your enquiry, you may send a request to the Danish Agency for Digital Government via email webtilsyn@digst.dk or leave a voice message at +45 20 16 36 12.

The Danish Agency for Digital Government will assess your enquiry and respond within 10 working days.

The Danish Agency for Digital Government uses enquiries as input for its supervisory activities concerning compliance with the Web Accessibility Act. For enquiries that are not related to web accessibility, you should contact the relevant authority directly.