For blind and visually impaired people who have chosen to receive their income tax assessment in electronic form, Mein ELSTER offers the option of submitting an electronic application to convert the tax assessment into an accessible format.
To use this function, you must be logged into General settings activate the checkbox "Enable request for an accessible duplicate of the income tax assessment notice".
After retrieving your electronic income tax assessment notice, the following appears in
the Button "Request barrier-free duplicate notification".
You can use this Buttons to request your barrier-free duplicate of the decision. It can take two to four weeks to create the barrier-free duplicate of the decision, as the decision has to be prepared separately for this. You will receive a notification e-mail once the duplicate has been made available for data retrieval.