Accessibility of livsmedelsverket.se

This website is run by the Swedish Food Agency. We want as many people as possible to be able to use it, and this document describes how livsmedelsverket.se complies with the accessibility regulations, any known accessibility issues, and how you can report problems so that we can fix them.

How accessible is the website?

We know some parts of this website aren’t fully accessible. See the section on non-accessible content below for more information.

What to do if you can’t access parts of this website?

If you need content from this website that is not accessible for you, but is not within the scope of the accessibility regulations as described below, please contact us.

Reporting accessibility problems with this website

We’re always looking to improve the accessibility of this website. If you find any problems that aren’t listed on this page or if we’re not meeting the requirements of the accessibility regulations, contact us and let us know about the problem.

Enforcement procedure

The Agency for Digital Government is responsible for enforcing the accessibility regulations. If you’re not happy with how we respond to your complaint about web accessibility or your request to make content accessible, submit a complaint to the Agency for Digital Government.
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Technical information about this website’s accessibility

This website is partially compliant with the Swedish accessibility regulations, due to the non-compliances listed below.

Non-accessible content

The content described below is, in one way or another, not fully accessible.

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations

  • In the Talking Web reading tool, there is a button where language changes are not indicated in a machine-readable way. In the Firefox browser, the focus order and focus highlighting for Talking Web may differ from the visual one. The deficiencies have been reported to the software company for action.
  • The subtitles in the video player are not read out synchronized with the video. The deficiency will be corrected by 1 July 2024.
  • Publications published between 23 September 2018 and 1 January 2020 are not always fully accessible (see below under Disproportionate burden).
  • Language changes are not always coded with language attributes. We are currently dealing with this problem. We will also include the issue in future technology upgrades for the website.
  • Some of the video material on the website does not have an audio description. This applies to videos produced before 23 September 2020. All videos produced or to be produced after this date will have an audio description where required.
  • Some of the Agency’s templates are currently not accessible. This means that some types of documents, such as forms, cannot be fully adapted. There is currently no expected date for completion.

Disproportionate burden

The Swedish Food Agency invokes an exemption for disproportionate burden in accordance with § 12 in the accessibility regulations for the content described below.

  • Publications published after 23 September 2018 but before 1 January 2020 may not be fully accessible. From the perspective that many have a very narrow target audience, we currently consider it unreasonably burdensome to adapt all of these publications. However, we are working on adapting those that have a general interest and a wide audience. At the same time, we direct resources towards new technology that ensures that the publications can easily be adjusted for accessibility in the future, so-called e-publications.

Content that’s not within the scope of the accessibility regulations
The content described below is not fully accessible, but is exempt in accordance with § 9 in the accessibility regulations.

  • Few videos published before 23 September 2020.
  • Most publications published before 23 September 2018. As publications more than ten years old are normally deleted, they are continuously removed from the website. However, we are working to make accessible those publications that have a high public interest and a wide audience. If you have an interest in any of these publications, contact us and we will present an accessible document.

How we tested this website

The Swedish Food Agency is regularly testing the accessibility of the website. We conduct a follow-up on the results each month. According to the results appropriate measures are taken in order to improve the accessibility.

Reviewed 2023-12-03