Note on Accessibility

This note on accessibility applies for the domain meine-dgs.de (or sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/meinedgs).

Universität Hamburg seeks to make its websites fully accessible to people with disabilities. This process is based on the Hamburg act on equal treatment for disabled persons (Hamburgisches Gesetz zur Gleichstellung behinderter Menschen, HmbGGbM) and the ordinance on barrier-free information technology (Barrierefreie-Informationstechnik-Verordnung, BITV 2.0).

This site provides services to users of German Sign Language. This implies a high degree of visual materials.

We are happy of course about any visitors with low vision and want to provide good accessibility to them as well. Therefore, we provide alternative texts for the videos on this site:

• All videos in the portal “MEINE DGS” (MY DGS) are provided with subtitles in vtt format.
• On the portal “MEINE DGS – annotiert” (MY DGS – annotated) almost all Videos are shown with a time-aligned transcript below them where all signs are labelled with glosses. Moreover, the transcript contains a translation into English and German.
• Single-sign videos have an alternative text that describes the sign using the Hamburg Notation System (HamNoSys).

We are well aware that the Hamburg Notation System primarily is a research tool and less suited for occasional users trying to identify the form of a sign. We are working on preparing an automatic translation from HamNoSys in English descriptions.

Contact

If you notice any faults in the accessible design of the a.m. sites, please contact us:

DGS-Korpus

Universität Hamburg

Institut für Deutsche Gebärdensprache und Kommunikation Gehörloser

Gorch-Fock-Wall 7

20354 Hamburg

webmaster (at) dgs-korpus.de

Arbitration procedure

If you are unable to find a satisfactory solution, even after providing feedback to the address provided above, you may contact the ombudsperson’s office provided for in Section 13a HmbBGG (German: Schlichtungsstelle HmbBGG). This ombudsperson is tasked with fostering an extrajudicial resolution for conflicts between persons with a disability and public offices. The arbitration procedure is free. Legal counsel is not required.

Contact

Schlichtungsstelle HmbBGG

c/o Öffentliche Rechtsauskunft- und Vergleichsstelle (ÖRA)

Dammtorstraße 14

20354 Hamburg

schlichtungsstelle-hmbbgg@soziales.hamburg.de

This note was written on 2024-08-20.