This website is subject to the Act on the Provision of Digital Services. Under the Act, public online services must be accessible, i.e. everyone must have equal opportunities to access to them.

This is the accessibility statement of the Office of the President of the Republic and it applies to the presidentti.fi website.

The statement was prepared on 22 September 2020 and updated on 15 February 2024. The accessibility of the website was assessed in August 2023 by the Office of the President of the Republic in cooperation with the website’s technical service provider.

Accessibility status

The presidentti.fi website partly meets the Level A and Level AA requirements outlined in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1. The Act on the Provision of Digital Services obliges providers of online services to meet all of the Level A and Level AA accessibility criteria.

Accessibility issues and efforts to rectify them

Our website currently has inaccessible content, which is constantly being developed to make it accessible.

Issues have been identified in the following areas:

  • Individual PDF files
  • A few third-party services, such as the date element in the search form for the events calendar and some functions of the picture gallery (text alternatives for thumbnail images)

Efforts to develop the technical accessibility of our website are ongoing. For the most significant content pages, we aim to correct the issues as soon as possible.

The website also contains content that is not subject to the legal accessibility requirements. Such content includes videos published before 23 September 2020 that are not subtitled, for example.

Feedback and contact information

We welcome comments and suggestions on how to improve the accessibility of our website. Please send your feedback by email to kirjaamo@tpk.fi. We will respond to your feedback within 14 days.

If the information you need is not available in an accessible format on our website, you can request the information by sending a message to kirjaamo@tpk.fi. We will respond to your enquiry within 14 days. If the information you need is particularly extensive, it may take us up to two weeks longer to respond to your request.

Contact information of the supervisory authority

If you notice an accessibility issue on our website and are not satisfied with our response, you can file a complaint with the Regional State Administrative Agency for Southern Finland, which monitors compliance with accessibility requirements in Finland. Instructions on how to file a complaint and information on how your complaint will be processed can be found on the Regional State Administrative Agency’s website.

Regional State Administrative Agency for Southern Finland
Accessibility Supervision Unit
www.saavutettavuusvaatimukset.fi (in Finnish and English only)
saavutettavuus@avi.fi
tel. (switchboard) +358 295 016 000