Declaration of website accessibility - The Cracow University of Technology Library

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Declaration of the CUT Library website accessibility

The Library of Cracow University of Technology undertakes to make its website available under the Act of 4 April 2019 on digital accessibility of websites and mobile applications of public entities. The accessibility statement applies to the CUT Library portal website.

Date of website publication: 2015-04-25

Date of last significant update: 2022-09-28

The website complies with the Act of 4 April, 2019 on the digital accessibility of public entities' websites and mobile applications.

The statement was made on: 2020-12-31. The declaration was made on the basis of a self-assessment carried out by a public entity.

The declaration was last reviewed on: 2022-09-28

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Feedback and contact details

In case of problems with the availability of the website, please contact us. The contact person is Szymon Zdebski, email address: szdebski@pk.edu.pl. You can also contact by calling the following phone number +48 12 628-29-66. The same route can be used to submit requests for inaccessible information and to file complaints about the failure to provide accessibility.

Anyone has the right to request the availability of a digital website, mobile application or some element thereof. You can also request that the information be made available through an alternative means of access, for example, by reading a digitally inaccessible document, describing the contents of a film without audiodescription, etc. The request should include the details of the person making the request, an indication of which website or mobile application is involved, and how to contact it. If the requesting person reports the need to receive information through an alternative means of access, he or she should also specify a convenient way to present the information.

The public entity should implement the request immediately, no later than within 7 days from the date of the request. If it is not possible to meet this deadline, the public entity shall immediately inform the requester when the execution of the request will be possible, but the deadline shall not be more than 2 months from the date of the request. If it is not possible to ensure digital accessibility, the public entity may propose an alternative way to access the information.

If a public entity refuses to comply with a request to provide accessibility or an alternative means of accessing information, the requester may file a complaint about the provision of accessibility of a digital website, mobile application, or an element of a website or mobile application.

After exhausting the procedure indicated above, an application may also be submitted to the Commissioner for Human Rights (new window).

Architectural accessibility of the CUT Library

  1. CUT LIBRARY MAIN BUILDING (10-22), ADDRESS: 24 Warszawska St., 31-155 Kraków
    Director of the CUT Library, Library Administration Office, Public Services Department (Main Reading Room, Lending Room and Interlibrary Loans), Collection Processing Department, IT Specialists Department
     
    • DESCRIPTION OF THE BUILDING ENTRANCE:
      Two-story building accessible directly from the ground level, 3 entrances from the courtyard side.
       
    • ACCESSIBILITY FOR PEOPLE WITH MOBILITY DISABILITIES:
      All entrances to the building inaccessible to people with mobility disabilities, due to stairs and thresholds.
       
    • ACCESSIBILITY FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED:
      It is possible to enter with a guide dog. 
      On the first floor, to the right of the entrance to the Lending Room, there is a tiflographic board equipped with an iBeacon voice tag. 
       
    • ACCESSIBILITY FOR HEARING IMPAIRED:
      It is possible to use an induction loop – information at the Lending Room.
      It is possible to use a Polish sign language interpreter – contact with the Office for People with Disabilities.
     
  2. LIBRARY PAVILION (10-28), ADDRESS: 24 Warszawska St., 31-155 Kraków
    Information Services Department, Serials and E-Resources Department (Serials Reading Room), Science Reading Room
     
    • DESCRIPTION OF THE BUILDING ENTRANCE:
      One-story building accessible directly from ground level, 2 entrances to the building. Main entrance from the courtyard (through the hall to Serials Reading Room and Science Reading Room) and the entrance on the south side to the Information Services Department.
       
    • ACCESSIBILITY FOR PEOPLE WITH MOBILITY DISABILITIES:
      Entrance from the courtyard (through the hall to Serials Reading Room and Science Reading Room) accessible to people with mobility impairments. 
      Entrance on the south side to the Information Services Department inaccessible to people with mobility disabilities, due to thresholds, vestibule. 
      People with mobility impairments have the opportunity to order books available in the Lending Room on the Campus at 24 Warszawska St., to the Science Reading Room. 
      There is a computer workstation with an electrically adjustable tabletop height in the Science Reading Room.
      In the building (entrance from the hall) there is a toilet for people with mobility disabilities. 
       
    • ACCESSIBILITY FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED:
      There is a computer station with specialized software for visually impaired people to work independently in the Science Reading Room. 
      It is possible to enter with a guide dog. 
       
    • ACCESSIBILITY FOR HEARING IMPAIRED:
      It is possible to use an induction loop – information in the Science Reading Room. 
      It is possible to use a Polish sign language interpreter – contact with the Office for People with Disabilities. 
     
  3. BUILDING G OF THE MECHANICAL FACULTY, ADDRESS: 37 Jana Pawła II Av., 31-864 Kraków
    The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Library (BWM): Lending Room, Reading Rooms, Library self-service outdoor kiosk
     
    • DESCRIPTION OF THE BUILDING ENTRANCE:
      A two-story building, the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Library is located on the ground floor and is accessible directly from ground level on the east side.
      Library self-service outdoor kiosk BWM is located outside the building, to the right of the entrance to the building. 
       
    • ACCESSIBILITY FOR PEOPLE WITH MOBILITY DISABILITIES:
      The building has toilets for people with disabilities located on the ground floor and on the first floor. 
      There is no properly marked parking space next to the building. 
       
    • ACCESSIBILITY FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED:
      It is possible to enter with a guide dog.
       
    • ACCESSIBILITY FOR HEARING IMPAIRED:
      It is possible to use an induction loop – information in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Library (BWM) Lending Room.
      It is possible to use a Polish sign language interpreter – contact with the Office for People with Disabilities.