Accessibility Statement

PART A

The ORGANISATION FOR WELFARE BENEFITS AND SOCIAL SOLIDARITY is committed to making its website opeka.gov.gr accessible, in accordance with the provisions of Law 4727/2020 (Government Gazette 184 A’, 23 September 2020), Chapter H’ “DIGITAL ACCESSIBILITY (TRANSPOSITION INTO GREEK LEGISLATION OF DIRECTIVE (EU) 2016/2102 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL OF 26 OCTOBER 2016 ON THE ACCESSIBILITY OF THE WEBSITES AND MOBILE APPLICATIONS OF PUBLIC SECTOR BODIES)”, which transposes Directive (EU) 2016/2012 into the national legal order.

This accessibility statement applies to the following: the website opeka.gov.gr

Compliance Status

This website, opeka.gov.gr, is fully compliant with the accessibility requirements of Article 39 of Law 4727/2020 and largely compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1 AA). The website incorporates the accessibility Widget of the WPaccessibility service, which is located in a prominent position on every page and helps resolve most accessibility issues for the WCAG 2.1 AA level.

Preparation of this Accessibility Statement

This statement was prepared on 30 November 2023.

The actual assessment of the website’s compliance with the requirements of Directive (EU) 2016/2102 was carried out by means of a self-assessment conducted by the company Younet, using WAVE (Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool) and the One Click Accessibility Widget.

Submission of Comments and Contact Details

In accordance with the provisions of Law 4727/2020 (Government Gazette 184 A’, 23 September 2020), Article 45, any interested party has the right to submit comments or a request for information on the compliance status, or a request for missing information.

At the ORGANISATION FOR WELFARE BENEFITS AND SOCIAL SOLIDARITY, the above are submitted by means of a relevant Application from the interested party, sent by e-mail to accessibility@opeka.gr or in writing to the postal address: 30 28is Oktovriou Street, Athens, 10170

Responsibility for digital accessibility matters and for handling related requests lies with the Directorate of Information Technology and, more specifically, the Production Operations Department.

Enforcement Procedure

The competent directorate of the ORGANISATION FOR WELFARE BENEFITS AND SOCIAL SOLIDARITY responds to the interested party in an appropriate manner.

In the event of an unsatisfactory response to the notification or the requests, the interested party is entitled, as provided for, to apply to the competent institutional authorities, for example by submitting a relevant Complaint to the Greek Ombudsman (https://www.synigoros.gr).

PART B

Activating the Accessibility Menu

The accessibility menu of the opeka.gov.gr website can be activated by clicking the round blue accessibility menu icon, which appears in a fixed position on the left, roughly halfway down every page. After activating the accessibility menu, please wait a moment for the accessibility menu to load in full.

opeka.gov.gr continues its efforts to continually improve the accessibility of the website, in the belief that it is our collective moral obligation to enable seamless use by all those.

As part of an ongoing effort to continually improve and remedy accessibility problems, we regularly scan opeka.gov.gr with the WAVE accessibility scanner in order to identify and fix every possible accessibility barrier on the website. Despite our efforts to make all pages and content on opeka.gov.gr fully accessible, some content may not yet have been fully adapted to the strictest accessibility standards.

Certificate – Accessibility Badge

The graphic below (badge) was created, which serves as a visual representation of certification for the pages we checked during the study. The period of validity of the certification (and therefore of the accessibility badge) is the same as that described above in the Accessibility Statement.

Validity: The certification concerns the opeka.gov.gr domain and the version that existed on the date of completion (30 November 2023). It is valid from December 2023 for one year or until the next version of the website. If there are significant changes to, or a redesign of, the pages, a new certification study will be required.