On this page, you can find information about access to Toompea Castle, and using the Riigikogu website.

Access to Toompea Castle

Toompea Castle is accessible to visitors with mobility disabilities. All major rooms – the visitors’ gallery of the Session Hall, the Conference Hall of the Riigikogu, the White Hall and most of the working rooms – are wheelchair accessible. However, not all working rooms are accessible to visitors with mobility disabilities. When planning a visit, please consult the person who invited you about accessibility, or write to [email protected].

Visiting the Riigikogu

The left entrance of Toompea Castle is accessible by a ramp without steps. Next to the door, at the wheelchair level, there is a doorphone through which the reception desk can be contacted. An employee of the Riigikogu Chancellery will be called to receive the guest with mobility disability and accompany them to the building. All visitors of the Riigikogu are always accompanied by an official of the Chancellery in the Riigikogu buildings. Toompea Castle can be entered on wheelchair through the car gate.

If a guest with mobility disability arrives by a taxi, the taxi can stop at the lay-by next to the entrance of the parking lot, and the guest has to reach the entrance of the Riigikogu by themselves. Guests with mobility disabilities arriving by car have to apply for a parking permit first, like all other visitors. The car park workers allow to park the car on the parking lot after a permit has been issued.

Toompea Castle has a WC and two lifts accessible for disabled persons, and two platform elevators for moving between different parts of the building complex.

Accessibility notice of the Riigikogu home page

This website is owned by the Chancellery of the Riigikogu. We want www.riigikogu.ee to be in compliance with the accessibility requirements established under Section 32 of the Public Information Act.

At the end of this notice, you will find contact details you can turn to if you experience problems with the accessibility of the website.

Compliance status

This website is partially compliant with accessibility requirements for the reasons listed below.

Non-accessible content and features

The content and functions listed below are not in compliance with the requirements of standard EN 301 549.

Some icons and images are partially accessible.

Screen readers do not read out the icons of the exiting link in the footer. VoiceOver and JAWS do not read out the descriptive text for images in the menu. JAWS does not say anything about “>” icons.

The deficiency is causing a non-compliance with accessibility requirement 9.1.1.1.

Video on a sub-page lacks synchronised captions (subtitles) for people with hearing deficiencies, and audio description or descriptive narration for visually impaired persons.

No captions and no descriptive narration or audio descriptions have been added to the video on the sub-page “Collective proposal”.

The deficiency is causing a non-compliance with accessibility requirements 9.1.2.2 and 9.1.2.3.

The videos on the sub-pages do not have audio descriptions.

The videos on sub-pages “Collective proposal” and “Positions and traineeships” do not have audio descriptions.

The deficiency is causing a non-compliance with accessibility requirement 9.1.2.5.

Sub-pages have multiple title elements of the same level that are not determined.

Some sub-pages have multiple title elements of the same level or the title elements are not sequenced logically, from the lowest to the highest H1, H2, H3, etc.

The deficiency is causing a non-compliance with accessibility requirement 9.1.3.1.

Information about the parliamentary group membership of the members of the Riigikogu in the seating plan cannot be determined by moving the screen reader.

When moving on the sub-page “Seating plan”, the parliamentary group membership of the members of the Riigikogu cannot be determined, although it is visually defined.

The deficiency is causing a non-compliance with accessibility requirement 9.1.3.1.

The input fields collecting information about the user do not have automatic filling attributes.

The input fields collecting information about the user do not have attributes that would enable to fill the input fields automatically on the basis of previously recorded data.

The deficiency is causing a non-compliance with accessibility requirement 9.1.3.5.

Some of the links are distinguished from the regular text only by colour and the contrast ratio does not meet the requirements.

On some sub-pages of the website, the links are distinguished from the normal text only by the colour blue. The contrast ratio between the link and the regular text is not 3:1. Colour must not be the only means for distinguishing visual information.

The deficiency is causing a non-compliance with accessibility requirement 9.1.4.1.

Zooming causes a horizontal scroll bar appear on some pages and information is lost.

For some screen sizes, zooming causes a horizontal scrollbar, or scrolling in two directions, or the information is only partially visible when the page is zoomed in.

The deficiency is causing a non-compliance with accessibility requirement 9.1.4.10.

The contrast ratio of the outlines of the input fields or between a marked cell and the background is not correct.

The contrast ratio of the outlines of some input fields or the colour of a marked cell and its background is not 3:1.

The deficiency is causing a non-compliance with accessibility requirement 9.1.4.11.

Increasing the text spacing will lose some information.

Increasing the text spacing will cause the menu item “Riigikogu” to disappear partially behind the coat of arms on some devices.

The deficiency is causing a non-compliance with accessibility requirement 9.1.4.12.

The contents of the menu cannot be closed without moving the cursor or focus.

Menu items can be opened by hovering the mouse over them or by the keyboard focus, but cannot be closed by pressing ESC key.

The deficiency is causing a non-compliance with accessibility requirement 9.1.4.13.

All functions of the website are not keyboard operable.

On the sub-page “Collective proposals submitted to the Riigikogu”, it is not possible to move to input fields “Composition of the Riigikogu”, “Lead committee” and “Stage of proceedings” with keyboard. On the sub-page “Document register”, input field calendars “From” and “To” cannot be used with keyboard.

The deficiency is causing a non-compliance with accessibility requirement 9.2.1.1.

In places, the focus order of user interface elements is not logical and intuitive.

In the header, the focus moves in illogical order after the coat of arms: Search box -> search button -> social media channels (from left to right) -> „Accessibility“ -> „Contacts“ -> „Sitemap“ -> Language menu. The focus will move to the cookies notice only after the footer.

After opening of the feedback modal, the keyboard focus will move on under the modal. After modal button “x”, the focus will move back under the modal.

On 404 page, the focus moves to “Feedback” button immediately after the menu, or before the contents part.

The deficiency is causing a non-compliance with accessibility requirement 9.2.4.3.

The purpose of some links cannot be determined form the link text alone or from the link text together with its surrounding context read out by the screen reader.

There are repeated links on the home page. The images and titles in the news section are different elements of a link although both refer to the same page. The sub-page “Collective proposal” has repeated links. The images and titles on the sub-page “Collective proposals submitted to the Riigikogu” are different elements of a link although both refer to the same page.

The deficiency is causing a non-compliance with accessibility requirement 9.2.4.4.

All activated user interface elements do not have focus style that would distinguish it from other elements when the element is in focus.

After the “Skip navigation” link, the focus is lost for the duration of one TAB key press.

Focus style is not visible on the breadcrumb icon.

The deficiency is causing a non-compliance with accessibility requirement 9.2.4.7.

The visible labels of links, buttons and inputs do not correspond to the name read out by the screen reader.

In the case of a highlighted news item on the home page, VoiceOver first reads out the name of the image and then the name of the link, i.e. the link text read out by the screen reader does not start in the same way as the visible text.

The deficiency is causing a non-compliance with accessibility requirement 9.2.5.3.

Part of the text on a sub-page that is in another language than the main language of the sub-page is not fixed with a corresponding HTML attribute.

The Russian and English texts in the language selection hanging menu (another language than the main language of the sub-page) are not fixed with a corresponding HTML attribute.

At the end of the “Submit an information request” form, there is a “Please enter any two digits…” text in English, which is not the main language of the sub-page but is not fixed with a corresponding HTML attribute.

The deficiency is causing a non-compliance with accessibility requirement 9.3.1.2.

When some elements receive focus, there is a significant or unexpected change.

You can move between the tabs of the sub-page “Bills” (“In legislative proceeding”. “First reading”, etc.) and the tabs of the detailed view of a Bill (“All stages of proceeding”, “Initiation”, etc.) by using the arrow keys. Moving between them automatically activates filtering and updates the contents of the table.

The deficiency is causing a non-compliance with accessibility requirement 9.3.2.1.

Some predefined elements do not have labels and/or explanations that help the user understand what input is expected from them.

There are no labels on the input fields on the sub-page “Document register” (except “From” and “To”).

The deficiency is causing a non-compliance with accessibility requirement 9.3.3.2.

The screen reader does not communicate the name and purpose or the change of value of each user interface element.

JAWS takes the “>” icons in the footer into focus and calls them “Link”, then takes the link text into focus and reads it out as regular text.

In the mobile view, the screen readers say about the menu button that it is an image (“Menu, graphics”), and it is not clear that this is a button.

When reading out the headers of tables on some sub-pages, the screen reader says that the header is sorted, but does not say on what basis it is sorted.

Regarding pagination, screen readers do not say which page is active, even though it is visually distinguished.

On the sub-page “Document register”, the screen readers do not say whether the items (“Riigikogu”, “1 Legislation”, “2 Parliamentary control”, etc.) are open or closed.

The deficiency is causing a non-compliance with accessibility requirement 9.4.1.2.

The screen reader does not read out the status changes of some sub-pages in a way that enables the user to focus on it with the screen reader.

On the sub-page “Contacts”, screen readers do not automatically read out the message “Contact not found. Please specify name and repeat search.”

On the sub-pages “Bills” and ““Document register”, the screen readers do not automatically read out the message “Search results: …”.

The deficiency is causing a non-compliance with accessibility requirement 9.4.1.3.

Sub-pages have deficiencies relating to the requirements transposed from the WCAG

Some sub-pages are not in compliance with the requirements transposed from the WCAG to the standard EN 301 549 V3.2.1 (2021-03).

The deficiency is causing a non-compliance with accessibility requirement 9.6.

Sub-pages do not allow font size setting.

Several sub-pages do not allow font size setting.

The deficiency is causing a non-compliance with accessibility requirement 11.7.

User guide

The homepage of the Riigikogu has been designed to comply with the accessibility guidelines of WCAG 2.1 Level AA and the accessibility standard EN  301 549 V.3.2.1. This means that certain technical tools have been used to help users with visual, hearing, physical, speech, cognitive, language, learning and neurological disabilities to have access to the content of the homepage. This objective has also been kept in mind when designing the content. Access to information can be further improved by configuring your computer at browser and operating system level.

Overview of main tools

Navigating by keyboard

It is possible to navigate the website by keyboard alone. To do this, use the TAB key. Each press moves the focus to the next element. The currently active element is marked by a box surrounding it. To activate a link in focus, press the ”Enter” key on the keyboard.

Enlarging the content

To enlarge the content of the homepage, we first recommend to use the functionality built into the web browser.

Web browsers

In all popular web browsers, it is possible to zoom in and out of the page by holding down “Ctrl” key (“Cmd” key in OS X operating system) and at the same time pressing either “+” or “–”. Another convenient option is to hold down “Ctrl” key and at the same time roll the mouse wheel. To restore the normal size, press “Ctrl” and “0” keys simultaneously.

Using the screen reader

Screen reader is a program for interpreting the content displayed on the screen and conveying it in other forms, e.g. as sounds or audio comments. It is mainly a tool for visually impaired persons.

A selection of popular screen readers:

• JAWS (Windows) http://www.freedomscientific.com/
• VoiceOver (MacOS, free, built-in)
• NVDA (Windows, free) http://www.nvaccess.org/download/
• Sero (Windows) http://www.serotek.com/systemaccess

Feedback

We are constantly striving to improve the accessibility of this website. If you wish to give feedback on accessibility or if something you need is not accessible, please do not hesitate to contact us via the contact details below.

E-mail: [email protected]

Phone: +372 631 6331

We will usually reply within five working days.

Supervisory authority

The accessibility of websites and applications for public services is supervised by the Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority.

Website: www.ttja.ee

E-mail: [email protected]

Phone: +372 667 2000

Creation of the notice

This accessibility notice is based on a self-assessment.

Last modified on 13 November 2024.