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BBG

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Studying law requires dealing with a large amount of literature, especially law books and commentaries, which are essential for understanding and applying the law. For blind and visually impaired students printed laws represent a barrier. Even laws available online are often not sufficiently accessible, which makes them difficult to use with assistive technologies. This leads to disadvantages when studying and in examination situations.

Vision

The Bielefelder Barrierefreie Gesetzessammlung (BBG) is to be developed as an examination and learning application that enables the presentation of legal texts in an accessible form. We are pursuing the following goals:

  • All exam-relevant legal texts - so you have all the important content for your studies in one place.
  • Barrier-free presentation - for easy use, even with visual impairments.
  • Full support for screen readers - works with all common assistance programmes.
  • Automatic updating of texts - always up to date, without additional effort.
  • Available on all devices - the application runs on Mac, Windows and Linux, whether new or old.

For the exam mode, we take into account the requirements of an exam situation. This includes the fact that bookmarks and history can be easily reset and that the application works offline.
The legal texts are grouped thematically according to civil and criminal law, constitutional and administrative law and NRW state law.

Outside of examinations, the application can also be provided with an extended database in order to be able to use laws beyond the scope of the degree programme.

Accessibility

Accessibility criteria are at the centre of development and aim to design content and functions in such a way that they are fully inclusive for all users.

We ensure this through

  • regular usability tests for intuitive operation with all assistance systems
  • Targeted optimisation of previously inaccessible content
  • Testing in accordance with the current WCAG and BITV standards

The fulfilment of the technical standards of WCAG 2.1 and BITV 2.0 is planned with the full version. However, the developer versions still contain errors in individual aspects. We are happy to receive bug reports for our developers or via the public Gitlab project.

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