Declaration of accessibility

1. information about this website in simple language

What the company offers:

• The site pro­vides infor­ma­tion about the Harz Hik­ing Pass and stamp hunt­ing in the Harz Mountains.
• Peo­ple col­lect stamps in many places (222 places) and can receive badges or the title “Wan­derkaiser”.
• There is infor­ma­tion on spe­cial stamps, accom­pa­ny­ing book­lets, dates and the pro­tec­tion of the forest.

How to navigate the site:

• At the top are menu items such as “How it works”, “All stamp­ing points”, “Ser­vice office”, “Dates” and “GPS download”.
• The logo (usu­al­ly top left) takes you back to the home page.
• Impor­tant areas are vis­i­ble as links or lists to the stamp­ing sta­tions and cur­rent topics.

Where to find help:

• There is a ser­vice office in Blanken­burg with con­tact information.
• Infor­ma­tion on defect reports (e.g. bro­ken stamps) and found pock­ets is available.

2. our commitment

Harz­er Wan­der­nadel GmbH strives to make dig­i­tal access as bar­ri­er-free as pos­si­ble for every­one. We fol­low the guide­lines of the Web Con­tent Acces­si­bil­i­ty Guide­lines (WCAG) 2.1/2.2 at con­for­mi­ty lev­el AA as well as the applic­a­ble nation­al require­ments (such as the BFSG or the BITV 2.0).

3. status of compatibility

This web­site is par­tial­ly com­pli­ant with the above require­ments due to the fol­low­ing incom­pat­i­bil­i­ties and excep­tions. We are con­tin­u­ous­ly work­ing to cor­rect exist­ing deficiencies. 

4. non-accessible content

Despite our efforts, the fol­low­ing areas have not yet been com­plete­ly barrier-free:

• PDF doc­u­ments: Some old­er PDF down­loads are not opti­mized for screen readers.
• Third-par­ty con­tent: Embed­ded maps (e.g. Google Maps) or social media wid­gets are some­times beyond our tech­ni­cal con­trol in terms of key­board operability.
• Miss­ing alt texts: Images in the media library to which no descrip­tive alter­na­tive texts have been assigned, leav­ing screen read­er users with no infor­ma­tion about the image content. 
• Illog­i­cal head­ing hier­ar­chy: It can hap­pen that head­ings are select­ed based on the size of the dis­play and not on the hierarchy.

5. preparation of this declaration

This dec­la­ra­tion was cre­at­ed on 19.02.2026. The acces­si­bil­i­ty assess­ment is based on a self-assess­ment that was last car­ried out on 19.02.2026.

6 Feedback and contact

If you notice any bar­ri­ers or have any ques­tions about imple­men­ta­tion, we look for­ward to hear­ing from you. We will endeav­or to process your request as quick­ly as pos­si­ble and offer a solution. 

• Phone 03944 / 95 47 148
• E‑mail info@harzer-wandernadel.de
• Con­tact: Our ser­vice staff will be hap­py to help.

7 Enforcement proceedings

If you do not receive a sat­is­fac­to­ry response to your request with­in a rea­son­able peri­od of time, you can con­tact the com­pe­tent arbi­tra­tion board.