Accessibility Statement

• Evaluation of Accessibility
• Accessibility of the Service
• Reporting Accessibility Problems

The evaluation of www.jamk.fi was carried out by Jamk. The website has also been inspected by Regional state administrative agency (AVI) as simplified inspection of selected web pages in Finnish with Salvia evaluation tool in August 2024. This accessibility statement applies to Jamk's main website www.jamk.fi. Jamk's other websites in different domains or subdomains each have their own accessibility statement.

We monitor accessibility issues of the website with, for example, Siteimprove web accessibility tool continuously and do our best to fix any detected issues on the website and its content. We have instructed our content producers to follow accessibility practices and we organize training for our content producers to maintain and improve accessibility on Jamk's websites.

The website largely meets the requirements of the accessibility criteria required.

Some parts of the website are not fully accessible. The key shortcomings in the accessibility of the online service are described below. 

Information and user interface components must be presentable to users in ways they can perceive.

No data cells assigned to table header

• Inaccessible content and deficiencies: Some pages include  forms which use tables. Every header cell in a table should have at least one data cell assigned to it but this is not the case with these new forms which is a problem for screen reader users. We aim to fix this problem by the end of October 2024.
• Accessibility issue: WCAG 1.3.1 Info and relationships.

Text does not have minimum contrast

• Inaccessible content and deficiencies: www.jamk.fi home page, Apply to Jamk and Jamk Open University of Applied Sciences pages have a mosaic element in which there are links to the section's subpages. According to Salvia evaluation tool, the texts in the mosaic element do not meet the minimum contrast requirement. We aim to fix this problem by the end of October 2024.
• Accessibility issue: WCAG 1.4.3 Contrast (minimum).

User interface components and navigation must be operable.

Links without a text alternative

• Inaccessible content and deficiencies: Some pages have links without a text alternative. In addition, some pages have link texts that are identical although the links go to different pages. However, the link context indicates the difference between the links because these identical link texts on the same page are either under different headings or in different banners. We will instruct our content producers about these issues and do our best to fix these as soon as possible.
• Accessibility issue: WCAG 2.4.4 Link purpose (in context).

Visible label is not part of accessible name

• Inaccessible content and deficiencies: The website has a Checklist functionality which is displayed with a heart shaped button. By clicking the button it is possible to save a web page to a Checklist in the browser used. The visible label of the button (Add to checklist) is not the same or is not part of the accessible name. We aim to fix this problem by the end of October 2024.
• Accessibility issue: WCAG 2.5.3 Label and name.

Content must be robust enough that it can be interpreted by by a wide variety of user agents, including assistive technologies.

Text alternative is missing

• Inaccessible content and deficiencies: In some articles, there are videos embedded with iframe from YouTube and the embed code does not have a text alternative. We will do our best to fix issue this as soon as possible.
• Accessibility issue: WCAG 4.1.2 Name, role, value.

Form control does not have accessible name

• Inaccessible content and deficiencies: There are nine web pages that include an embedded form and under the form there is a reCAPTCHA element. ReCAPTCHA is used to identify if the form is filled in by a human. The reCAPTCHA element used does not have an accessible name. We aim to fix this problem by the end of October 2024.
• Accessibility issue: WCAG 4.1.2 Name, role, value.

Iframe element does not have accessible name

• Inaccessible content and deficiencies: There are nine web pages that include a form embedded with iframe and under the form there is also a reCAPTCHA element which is embedded with iframe. ReCAPTCHA is used to identify if the form is filled in by a human. The reCAPTCHA iframe element does not have an accessible name. We aim to fix this problem by the end of October 2024.
• Accessibility issue: WCAG 4.1.2 Name, role, value.

We are always looking to improve the accessibility of this website. If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we are not meeting accessibility requirements, please contact us by email at saavutettavuus(at) jamk.fi

If you find that the accessibility requirements are not met at our website, please contact us first to report the issue. It may take up to 14 days for us to reply. If you are not satisfied with our answer or you fail to get an answer from us within 14 days, you can report the matter to the Regional State Administrative Agency for Southern Finland. You will find detailed information about how the matter is dealt with on the website of the Regional State Administrative Agency for Southern Finland. The website is published in Finnish and Swedish.

Contact information for supervising authority

Accessibility supervision unit

Regional State Administrative Agency for Southern Finland

saavutettavuus(at)avi.fi

Tel. (switchboard) +358 (0)295 016 000

www.saavutettavuusvaatimukset.fi