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Amendments to the Digital Services Act
...transport services. These services include websites, mobile applications, digital passenger tickets, digital ticket services, as well as journey planners and traffic and disruption notices in a digital service. The Digital...
Tasks of the supervisory authority
...number of digital services monitored annually is determined by the European Commission. The size of this sample, i.e. the number of digital services supervised during each monitoring period, is calculated...
Tips for creating the statement
...improving everyone’s possibilities of using digital services equally. The Digital Services Act implements the EU Accessibility Directive (2016/2102). Read The Digital Services Act here (in Finnish or Swedish only). Why...
Requirements of the Act on the Provision of Digital Services
...that provides guidance in accessibility matters. Three requirements The Digital Services Act contains three key requirements that the digital services in its scope – i.e. websites and mobile applications –...
Accessibility overview
...to access. The Finnish word saavutettavuus (accessibility) is fairly well established when talking about digital services, i.e. websites and mobile applications. This accessibility thus means accessibility to the digital world:...
For whom is accessibility important?
...the use of digital service can be caused by many factors. For example, a blind person who uses a screen reader to access digital services often encounters problems due to...
Scope: does the Act apply to us?
...or maintenance, the service falls within the scope of application of the Act on the Provision of Digital Services. In this case, the digital service in question must meet the...
Home page
The Act on the Provision of Digital Services (306/2019) obliges the public sector and some private and third sector organisations to comply with accessibility requirements in their digital services. The...
Salvia software as a solution for web accessibility monitoring
When the Digital Services Act, which was enacted with the adoption of the EU Accessibility Directive, entered into force in Finland in spring 2019, the Accessibility Monitoring Unit had been...
What services and contents are covered by the Act?
...to everyone or require login. From a legal point of view, the scope of the service or the target group does not really matter. In other words, a digital service...