Accessibility Statement
Industrial Property Office of the Slovak Republic intends to provide
access to its website, in accordance with Act No. 95/2019 Coll. on information
technologies in the public administration and relevant executive regulations in
the extent of conditions laid down in Directive (EU) 2016/2102.
This Accessibility Statement refers to website Electronic Forms for
e-services.
State of conformity
This website is partially in line with Act No. 95/2019 Coll.
on information technologies in the public administration and on amendment to
other acts as amended and relevant executive regulations in the extent of
conditions laid down in Directive (EU) 2016/2102 with regard to components of
non-conformity specified below.
Inaccessible content
The content specified below is not accessible for the
following reasons:
1. Non-compliance with Directive (EU) 2016/2102 on the accessibility
of the websites and mobile applications of public sector bodies:
Information, structure, and relationships conveyed through
presentation is not programmatically determined. [Success Criterion 1.3.1 Info
and Relationships]
Several items in the main menu cannot be accessed using keyboard.
[Success criterion 2.1.1 Keyboard]
Several links are not sufficiently comprehensible outside of the
context. [Success criterion 2.4.4 Purpose of the link (in the context)]
Several images are missing alternative texts. [Success criterion 3.1.2 Language of different sections]
Several buttons do not have defined name tags. [Success criterion 3.3.2 Name tags or instructions]
Non-conformity with Slovak generally binding legal regulations governing standards for accessibility of website and mobile applications:
Sites that feature mandatorily published information based on
separate regulations do not contain the date of site publication and the date
of latest update. [§15(k) of Decree of the ODPMII No. 78/2020 on standards for
information technologies of the public administration]
Several links do not contain meaningfully distinctive information
as the text of the link. [§16(f) of Decree of the ODPMII No. 78/2020 on
standards for information technologies of the public administration]
Several links do not contain information about the file format
and size. Users are not informed that the hypertext link is connected to a file
of different format (e.g., RTF, DOCX, XLS, PDF, ZIP, etc.). [§18(i) of Decree
of the ODPMII No. 78/2020 on standards for information technologies of the
public administration]
Preparation of this Accessibility Statement
This Statement was prepared on 17 August 2023.
The assessment of conformity of the website with requirements of Act No. 95/2019
Coll. on information technologies in the public administration and relevant
executive regulations in the extent of conditions laid down in Directive (EU)
2016/2102 was performed in the form of self-assessment.
The Statement was most recently updated on 17 August 2023.
Feedback and contact information
In the event of any difficulties with accessibility of the website, please, contact us at e-mail address: webmaster@indprop.gov.sk
Enforcement procedure
In case of an unsatisfactory response to a notification of non-compliance of a website/mobile application with the accessibility rules according to Section 14 of the Decree on Standards for Information Technology in Public Administration within the feedback mechanism, or in case of an unsatisfactory response to a request for information or content that is exempt from the scope of the Act on Information Technology in Public Administration within the feedback mechanism, you can contact the Ministry of Investment, Regional Development, and Informatization of the Slovak Republic. This ministry is the authority responsible for enforcing Directive (EU) 2016/2102, and you can reach them at the following address:
Ministry of Investments, Regional Development and Informatization of the Slovak Republic
Pribinova 25
811 09 Bratislava
or at email address: standard@mirri.gov.sk.