Certificates

• bks.at

  Bronze

  The website of the BKS Bank was subsequently adapted to be barrier-free and awarded the WACA Bronze certificate. BKS is the first bank company with a WACA certificate. The BKS Bank recently celebrated its centenary and was able to successfully position itself as the most sustainable bank in Austria. This also includes a focus on people with disabilities and barrier-free access.
  The BKS Bank is based in Carinthia, employs over 1,000 people and is also active in banking and leasing business in Slovenia, Croatia, Slovakia, Serbia and Italy.

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• hofstädter.at

  Bronze

  The trademark of meat and sausage products of BILLA “Hofstädter” was subsequently significantly improved in terms of accessibility and was therefore awarded the WACA Bronze certificate. The website Hofstädter is therefore the 5th current WACA certification of REWE International AG. Congratulations for setting an example for a large and important retail group.

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• dieintegrativenbetriebe.at

  Silver

  The website of the brand “dib Die Integrativen Betriebe Österreich” has been completely redesigned and made barrier-free. It is therefore optimally accessible for all users and the WACA certificate in Silver can be awarded. We warmly congratulate you on the successful implementation. The Integrative Companies Austria is the umbrella brand of a total of 8 companies that offer 3,300 employees and 400 apprentices optimal conditions and enable them to fully participate in social life through stable and secure jobs - around 75% of the workforce are people with disabilities.

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• bsvk.at

  Silver

  The website of BSVK (Carinthia Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired) - a non-profit organisation for blind and visually impaired people in Carinthia - has been designed to be very barrier-free and is therefore optimally accessible for all users. It is therefore easy to use not only for people with visual impairments, but also for all other people with disabilities. Congratulations for WACA in Silver. The website is technically a clone of the certified website blindenverband-wnb.at and therefore a reduced test sample was possible for the certification audit.

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• Building management App

  Bronze

  First WACA certificate for a native app:
  The Austrian Parliament's building management app was created for the Android operating system by the agency BIG Pocket House GmbH and implemented barrier-free and was awarded the WACA Bronze certificate. The application is only available on smartphones and is only intended for internal Parliament employees. It is therefore not available in the App Store.
  We warmly congratulate you on the successful implementation. Native apps are still a big challenge to create them in an optimal, barrier-free manner according to WCAG.

  

• Whistleblower Software

  Silver

  The "Whistleblower Software" was subjected to a in-depth accessibility test based on a test platform in English and was awarded WACA Silver. The Whistleblower Software ApS., headquartered in Denmark, is one of the leading providers of this software in Europe. According to the EU Whistleblower Directive, companies with 50 or more people are obliged to set up internal, anonymous reporting channels and these should be accessible to everyone. You can find the audit report here.

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• log.wien

  Silver

  The Single-Sign-On solution „logwien“ – the digital key to the city of Vienna – almost meets all WCAG-Kriterien and was awarded the WACA certificate in Silver. With „logwien“ customers of the "Wiener Stadtwerke Group" are able to utilise all online services with just one online access. The good barrier-free implementation enables the users to operate the application easily and because just one login is necessary the website facilitates the access to the services of the public transports, the energy suppliers and the cemeteries in Vienna.

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• myability.org

  Gold

  The myAbility Social Enterprise GmbH accompanies companies in the DACH region towards an inclusive corporate culture, operates the myAbility Business Forum, Europe's largest German-speaking business network on the topic of business and disabilities, and supports students and graduates in their entry into professional life with career programmes. The website was developed strictly according to the WCAG guidelines. These efforts were checked by independent, qualified auditors in a two-stage process. The company website was awarded the highest WACA level in Gold and is therefore considered a role model for digital accessibility. The myAbility job and career platform was excluded from the audit.

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• gw-stpoelten.com

  Gold

  The website of GW St. Pölten Integrative Betriebs GmbH was redesigned in 2023 at the highest barrier-free level and conforms to all WCAG 2.1-AA success criteria. Therefore, the highest WACA level can be awarded in Gold. Congratulations on the successful accessible implementation. The industrial company is run as a non-profit limited liability company and has the task of employing, training and integrating people with disabilities in the state capital of St. Pölten in Lower Austria, taking into account the legal and economic framework.

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• mvg.at

  Bronze

  The new website of the Monopolverwaltung GmbH (short MVG) has been created to be barrier-free in accordance with the WCAG criteria and is now WACA-certified. We sincerely congratulate. The socio-political goal of MVG is to allocate vacant tobacconist locations to people with disabilities. More than 1200 tobacco shops are currently run by entrepreneurs with a degree of disability of at least 50 percent. With this unique allocation model, the monopoly promotes principles such as accessibility and equal opportunities in the inclusive labor market.

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• betriebsservice.info

  Gold

  The website of the "NEBA Betriebsservice" was completely redesigned and created in 2022 and meets all WCAG 2.1-AA success criteria. The website is unrestricted useable for all users and thus was awarded the highest WACA level in Gold. We congratulate on the optimal barrier-free design. NEBA stands for „Netzwerk berufliche Assistenz” and is an initiative by the ministry for social affairs. The NEBA Betriebsservice offers organisations in Austria answers and support for issues around the subject of work and disability.

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• CAMPUSonline 3.0

  Silver

  CAMPUSonline 3.0 is a comprehensive academic life cycle information management and administration system and has been implemented to be barrier-free for the user group of students. It was awarded the WACA certificate in Silver. The web application was audited representatively on the basis of a Review-System through a use case. The software solution was developed by TU Graz and is used by 42 higher education institutions in Austria and Germany. CAMPUSonline covers the entire student life cycle in all administrative matters - from applying for a degree programme, to the management of the students and the examinations, all the way to graduation.

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• lrh-noe.at

  Silver

  The website of the Court of Audit of Lower Austria has been designed to be barrier-free to a large extent and is therefore optimally accessible for all users. Congratulations on the WACA Silver Certificate and on the successful accessible website implementation of jet another public body in Austria! The Court of Audit is the independent monitoring body of the State Parliament of Lower Austria.

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• bbg.gv.at

  Gold

  The website of the Bundesbeschaffung GmbH (Austrian Federal Procurement Agency, short BBG) meets all WCAG 2.1-AA success criteria and was awarded the highest WACA level in Gold. Congratulations on the optimal barrier-free design. The BBG's website is a great example for the implementation of digital accessibility in public institutions. The Facebook feed and the advertising banner were excluded from the test because they are third-party providers. The BBG is the solution partner for procurement in Austria for ministries, federal states, cities and municipalities, as well as for outsourced federal organisations, universities and healthcare facilities. The BBG is 100% owned by the federal government.

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• Mindbreeze InSpire

  Silver

  The cloud search Mindbreeze InSpire was awarded the WACA certificate in Silver in November 2022 for the languages German and English. Congratulation on the successful implementation of the web application. Mindbreeze is a subsidiary of the Fabasoft Group and strives to create the best possible accessible IT solutions. For the certification, an exemplary use case was tested in a test environment, which is representative of the entire web application. Here you can find the certification report.

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• COCKPIT Integrity Line System

  Bronze

  The COCKPIT Integrity Line System and another whistleblower platform of the german based company EQS Group AG was awarded in Bronze for its German and English language versions. The platforms are offered as a B2B solution and are customised for each client. WACA has tested and certified the general test versions for all applications by way of example in 2022. Here you will find the certification reports of COCKPIT System and the Integrity Line.

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• brz.gv.at

  Silver

  The Austrian Federal Computing Center (short: BRZ as abbreviated from the German name Bundesrechenzentrum) website, overall meets all the WCAG 2.1- AA success criteria, for being accessible to its users who benefit from the information and the services it provides. We congratulate BRZ for receiving the WACA Silver Certificate, as a proof of establishing a barrier-free website and becoming a role model among the Austrian public institutions in this regard. 
  The BRZ is the market-leading technology partner for the public sector in Austria.

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• noevk.at

  Silver

  The "Niederösterreichische Vorsorgekasse AG" is the first company among the numerous corporate provident funds in Austria to receive the WACA Silver Certificate. Congratulations on this award! The good barrier-free implementation of the website as well as the process form for generating contracts, makes them a role model in the entire Austrian financial sector. Due to the ongoing digitization, it is particularly important in this sector to not exclude any users and ensure good accessibility.
  We remain hopeful that many other companies will follow this example.

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• holding-graz.at

  Bronze

  Another large public institution has received the WACA certification. "Holding Graz – Kommunale Dienstleistungen GmbH" of the state capital Graz, is the second largest municipal service provider in Austria. The Holding Graz website, including its voucher-onlineshop, meets the basic WCAG criteria at our certificate’s Bronze level and is now accessible to everyone. Congratulations on the successful implementation.

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• traiskirchen.gv.at

  Bronze

  Traiskirchen is the first city in Austria to receive the WACA certificate for its website. In addition to the federal and state governments, websites of local authorities must also be barrier-free according to the Austrian Web Accessibility Act. We would like to congratulate the municipality of Traiskirchen in Lower Austria for this exemplary effect. The website was completely redesigned and created according to the WCAG guidelines as best as possible.

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• nabe.gv.at

  Silver

  The website of the "naBe" platform has been designed to be barrier-free to a large extent and is therefore optimally accessible for all users. Congratulations on the WACA certificate in Silver. "naBe" stands for the sustainable public procurement action plan and is an initiative of the Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology (BMK). The "naBe" platform is organized by the Austrian Federal Procurement Agency. The high-quality implementation of the WCAG criteria is therefore again a model for other public institutions.

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• zeroproject.org

  Silver

  The Zero Project was initiated by the Essl Foundation and aims to achieve a world without barriers for people with disabilities by implementing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). It is an international platform where innovative and effective solutions, products, services and projects relating to the problems encountered by people with disabilities on a day-to-day basis are published and communicated with a worldwide network of organisations from all sectors of society. The highly accessible website was awarded the WACA Silver Certificate just in time for the start of the Zero Project Conference in Vienna.

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• assist4you.at

  Silver

  The website of the "ASSIST gemeinnuetzige GmbH" was relaunched and awarded the WACA Silver certificate. The ASSIST company supports autonomy and self-organisation of people with disabilities and helps in all areas of daily life. Congratulations on your accessible website!

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• tuwien.at

  Silver

  The Technical University of Vienna "TU Wien" is the first Austrian university to receive the WACA Silver certificate for its website tuwien.at as well as for two additional subdomains: it.tuwien.ac.at and tsc.tuwien.ac.at. Raising a website of this size and complexity to the Silver standard is quite an achievement – congratulations on this great accomplishment! The award also shows a high in-house level of competence and willingness to implement accessible content.

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• blindenverband-wnb.at

  Silver

  The website of the Federation for the Blind and Partially Sighted in Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland – a non-profit organisation representing the interests of blind and visually impaired people – has been designed to be highly accessible and can therefore be easily accessed by all users. It is, however, not only optimally accessible for people with visual impairments, but also for all other people with disabilities. Congratulations on the successful implementation and on the WACA Silver Certificate!

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• kraft-rucksack.at

  Gold

  "Kraft-Rucksack" from the Ninlil association is for women who have experienced violence, especially for women with disabilities. The website meets all WCAG 2.1-AA criteria and is also written in easy language. All texts are accompanied by videos in Austrian sign language. This website addresses all types of disabilities in depth. This is why it was awarded the highest WACA level: Gold. Congratulations for being an outstanding example of accessibility for all and the successful implementaion.

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• bluehendesoesterreich.at

  Bronze

  The website of "Blühendes Österreich", a non-profit private foundation of the retail group REWE International, is easily accessible and was awarded the WACA Bronze Certificate. The foundation is committed to the protection of Austria's biodiversity and with this website has also created a platform that allows users to submit their own contributions. This is the first time that a Non-Profit-Organisation (NPO) in the sustainability sector that pursues the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been WACA-certified.

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• ait.ac.at

  Bronze

  Another important public institution in Austria was certified by WACA. The website of the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology was retroactively optimised in terms of accessibility criteria and received the WACA Bronze Certificate. The AIT is Austria’s largest non-university research institution and the leading expert on central infrastructure issues among European institutions. It’s nice to see that research institutes also promote access to information for everyone. Due to the size and complexity of the website as well as the partly academic and international content, this was certainly not an easy task. Congratulations for this achievement!

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• fgoe.org

  Silver

  The website of the Healthy Austria Fund (FGÖ) – a division of Gesundheit Österreich GmbH – is highly accessible and compliant with the WCAG 2.1 - AA guidelines. The new FGÖ website was thus awarded the WACA Silver Certificate. Many congratulations to the people in charge for this great and outstanding achievement. It is extremely important, especially in these times, to make the tasks of the FGÖ (funding agency, competence centre as well as hub for practitioners, scientists and politicians in the field of health promotion) accessible to all people.

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• wu.ac.at

  Bronze

  The Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) is the first major university in Austria to be awarded a WACA certificate. The website of the WU is very complex and contains many subpages to cater for different target groups, from students to researchers, to employees to the general public, and to display everything from academic sections to study information to the research portal. Adapting it to the international criteria for accessibility was quite a challenge, but WU was able to achieve this goal. Congratulations on this achievement!

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• stipendium.at

  Silver

  The website of the Austrian Study Grant Authority complies with the WCAG 2.1-AA guidelines to a very high degree and was awarded the WACA Silver certificate. With this, another public institution sets an example in fulfilling the Austrian Web Accessibility Act (WZG). The only feature that is not yet accessible to every user is the online application form. However, since this is an external system that the website operator cannot access, this functionality was not included in the scope of the audit.

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• nightjet.com

  Silver

  The German and English versions of the website of the Nightjet – the night train of the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) – are very accessible and comply with the WCAG 2.1-AA guidelines. Congratulations to obtaining the WACA Silver certificate! It should be noted that the subsite tickets.oebb.at was not included in the scope of the audit as the website operator has no influence on this external tool. Moreover, it is not part of the nightjet.com website due to the different URL. As this functionality is a very important part of the website, however, no WACA Gold certificate can be awarded.

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• kija-noe.at

  Silver

  The online presence of the Ombudsoffice for Children and Youths for Lower Austria (NÖ kija) based in St. Pölten was completely relaunched and subsequently subjected to an independent WACA certification process. As a result, the website was found to be very accessible. Many congratulations to the persons in charge as well as to the developers for receiving the WACA Silver certificate. The website was re-certified in April 2024 and is valid again for 3 years.

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• EQS Integrity Line

  Silver

  The web-based whistleblower platform EQS Integrity Line of the internationally EQS Group AG based in Germany has been awarded the WACA Silver certificate for its German and English language versions. This application is accessible to all users and is highly compliant with the WCAG 2.1-AA criteria. The platform is offered as a B2B solution and is customised for each client. WACA has tested and certified the general test version for all applications by way of example in May 2021.

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• hilfsgemeinschaft.at

  Gold

  The Austrian Association in Support of the Blind and Visually Impaired is the largest self-help organisation for the visually impaired in Austria. In order to particularly address the needs of the target group, great attention was paid to compliance with the WCAG guidelines and additional operating aids were integrated when relaunching the website of the organisation as well as the associated Access Austria website.
  These efforts were audited and checked by independent, qualified auditors in a two-stage process. Both websites were awarded the highest WACA level in Gold and thus serve as role models for digital accessibility.

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• austria.info

  Bronze

  The central online presence of the Austrian National Tourist Office ("Österreich Werbung"), which promotes Austria as a tourist destination, was retrospectively adapted to guarantee accessibility for all users to this important online platform. The most important website of "Österreich Werbung" with the URL austria.info was awarded the WACA Bronze certificate for its German and English versions. The re-certification was in August 2023.

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• patientenombudsmann-wien.at

  Silver

  The website of the Patient Ombudsman of the Medical Association of Vienna has been designed to be very barrier-free and largely corresponds to the international WCAG 2.1 - AA criteria. The website was re-certified in 2023 and awarded WACA Silver. We would like to extend our sincere congratulations to those responsible for and implementing the website for this achievement. This website is exemplary for many public institutions that have to comply with the Austrian Web Accessibility Act and are still working on compliance with the accessibility guidelines.

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• bkms-system.com

  Silver

  The BKMS® Incident Reporting of Business Keeper GmbH was awarded the first WACA certificate of the WCAG 2.1 - AA version. The whistleblower system is part of the holistic compliance platform BKMS® Compliance System and at the same time the first WACA-certified web application from Germany. Congratulations to the international company from Berlin for this special achievement. In 2022, the web application was recertified and the Silver certification was extended for 3 more years. With the fulfillment of the currently WCAG criteria, the relevant requirements of EN 301 549 are also met.

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• q2e.at

  Silver

  The first digital agency to receive the WACA certificate. The agency Q2E from St. Pölten in Lower Austria specialises in web accessibility and has also created its own website according to the international WCAG guidelines. The website was re-certified in January 2023 and the certificate is valid for 3 years. Due to the increasing requirements in the digital world, it is setting a good example for agencies to also deal with web accessibility and automatically design websites and mobile applications to be accessible. Congratulations to Q2E and its employees.

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• fh-vie.ac.at

  Silver

  The website of the University of Applied Sciences (FH) of the Vocational Training Institute (BFI) Vienna almost fully meets the requirements for accessible websites according to WCAG. For the first time in Austria a university institution has thus been WACA-certified. Congratulations to the FH of the BFI Vienna. They set an example for many other educational institutions and universities that still have some way to go to be accessible to all users. The website was re-certified in 2022 and the WACA certification was extended for further 3 years. 

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• infrastruktur.oebb.at

  Silver

  The ÖBB-Infrastruktur was re-certified in 2022 and the WACA certification was extended for further 3 years. With around 18,700 employees, they plan, develop, maintain and operate the entire Austrian rail infrastructure. Only minimal deviations from WCAG 2.1-AA were found on the website, which may well be possible due to the complexity and size of the website. With regard to the overall assessment of the website, the auditor team decided on WACA in silver. We congratulate those responsible and implementers at ÖBB on this award. Excluded from the audit were external websites with a different URL as well as internal areas. 

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• viadonau.org

  Silver

  The website of via donau - Österreichische Wasserstraßen Gesellschaft mbH - is highly accessible and has therefore been awarded the WACA Silver Level. This organisation is the leading international waterway operators in the Danube region. In February 2023 the website was re-certified and the certification is valid for 3 more years. Congratulations on this achievement! This website should set a standard for many other public websites to ensure that no one will be deprived of information on the web in the future. External content (Blog, DoRIS and DLP) was excluded from the audit and therefore not certified.

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• cloud.fabasoft.com

  Silver

  The web-based application Fabasoft Business Process Cloud of the Linz-based company Fabasoft largely complies with the WCAG 2.1 - AA requirements and was re-certified in WACA Silver in 2022. As a representative sample of this product, 2 use cases were defined and intensively tested. This application does not exclude any users and allows everyone to use it. Due to the complexity of the user interface, however, it is recommended that keyboard users read the corresponding help page. Due to the improvements made during the certification process, it was possible to generally increase the quality of the Fabasoft product.
  Congratulations! This shows that software applications can and should also be designed in an accessible way.

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• oebb.at

  Silver

  The website of ÖBB-Personenverkehr AG is highly accessible and consequently received the WACA Silver certificate. External contents concerning the schedule of trains (SCOTTY) and ticket bookings and reservations are excluded from the certificate, as the website operator has no control over these tools. These are independent websites and therefore not part of the website oebb.at.
  The website was re-certified in 2021 and the WACA certificate is valid again for 3 years. Short review audits are carried out annually to maintain this.

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• team.bipa.at

  Bronze

  The job platform of BIPA Parfumerien Ges.m.b.H. was optimised with regard to accessibility and the WCAG 2.1-AA criteria and so awarded the Bronze certificate. The website was re-certified in July 2021 and the WACA certificate is valid again for 3 years. Short review audits are carried out annually to maintain this.

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• cleverleben.at

  Silver

  REWE International AG received the Silver certificate for its optimised website of the trademark "clever". The website was re-certified in 2020 and 2023 and the WACA certificate is valid again for 3 years. Short review audits are carried out annually to maintain this.

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• simplygood.at

  Bronze

  The very first WACA certificate with the number WACA 001 was awarded to the website of REWE International AG’s sustainable product line "Simply Good". The website was re-certified in 2020 and 2023 and the WACA certificate is valid again for 3 years. Short review audits are carried out annually to maintain this.

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