SwitzerlandDisability Equality Ordinance, Accessible Services and Internet Offerings of Federal Concession Holders
In force since .
An accessibility requirements rule binding public and private bodies.
- Instrument type
- a regulation made under an act
As of .
What it requires
- If you operate under a federal concession, take the necessary structural and technical measures to make your services accessible to persons with disabilities (BehiV Art. 9(1)).
- Equip your machines so that persons with disabilities can use them, and make sure that persons who cannot operate technical aids independently because of their disability receive the necessary help (BehiV Art. 9(2) and (3)).
- Make your information, communication and transaction services over the internet accessible to persons with speech, hearing and visual impairments and to persons with motor impairments, setting up your internet offering according to the W3C guidelines on access to web pages and, subsidiarily, the national IT standards (BehiV Art. 10(1), read with Art. 10(2)(b) for federal concession holders).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text, as of .
Who enforces it
Settledness
- As of
- Open questions
- Does Article 10(1) of the BehiV bind an undertaking operating under a federal concession in the same way as a federal administrative unit, given that Article 10(2)(b) leaves the guidelines for its field to its own responsible organs?
What this law does
Article 9 provides that the federal administrative units, the organisations and undertakings named in the Government and Administration Organisation Act, and the organisations and undertakings operating under a federal concession take the necessary structural and technical measures to make their services accessible to persons with disabilities. They equip their machines in particular so that persons with disabilities can use them.
They ensure that persons who cannot operate technical aids independently because of their disability receive the necessary help. The provisions of the Ordinance on the accessible design of public transport remain reserved. Article 10(1) provides that information, communication and transaction services over the internet must be accessible to persons with speech, hearing and visual impairments and to persons with motor impairments.
For that purpose internet offerings must be set up in accordance with the international IT standards, in particular the guidelines of the World Wide Web Consortium on access to web pages, and, subsidiarily, the national IT standards.
Article 10(2) assigns the issuing of the necessary guidelines to the digital transformation and ICT steering sector of the Federal Chancellery for the federal administrative units and to the responsible organs of the other bodies and of the organisations and undertakings operating under a federal concession, each for its own field.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app ships a consumer interface.