Accessibility of this Website
Messe Augsburg strives to make its website accessible in accordance with the Accessibility Enhancement Act (BFSG), which comes into effect on June 28, 2025, to implement Directive (EU) 2019/882 (European Accessibility Act).
This accessibility statement applies to the website https://www.messeaugsburg.de/en.
How accessible is this website?
The benchmark for assessing accessibility is the European standard EN 301 549 Version 3.2.1 and the German Accessible Information Technology Ordinance (BITV 2.0).
Currently, not all of the aforementioned requirements are fully met. Therefore, the website is not fully accessible.
The accessibility of Messe Augsburg’s website is part of an ongoing development process. Identified shortcomings and deficiencies are currently undergoing a continuous improvement process that is being implemented step by step. Some areas are particularly accessible and largely meet the requirements.
Which areas are not accessible?
The assessment of compliance is based on the audit result from May 28, 2025.
The following areas were identified as not fully accessible during the review:
- Some images and graphic elements do not have meaningful alternative text or are embedded without a description.
- Structural information (e.g., heading hierarchies, table headings) is not correctly marked up in all cases or is only visually recognizable.
- Certain information (e.g., status indicators, highlights) is conveyed solely through color.
- The contrast between text and background does not meet the required minimum ratio of 4.5:1 or 3:1 in some instances.
- Content is not consistently fully usable when zoomed to 200% (e.g., elements overlap or are cut off).
- When using screen magnification or in responsive design, horizontal scrolling or overlapping content occurs in some cases.
- Some interactive elements (e.g., icons, buttons) lack sufficient contrast with the background.
- Not all functions and interactive elements are fully accessible or operable via keyboard.
- Automatically playing moving content (e.g., sliders, videos) cannot always be stopped or paused.
- There is no option to skip directly to the main content.
- A clear and consistent navigation structure is not consistently present (e.g., sitemap or search function is missing).
- The keyboard focus is not always clearly visible.
- The visible labels of buttons or links do not always match their accessible name (for screen readers).
- Interactive components (e.g., forms, switches) do not reliably convey their name, role, or state to screen readers.
This statement was created on June 6, 2025, based on a previous audit following the harmonized European standard EN 301 549 (Version 3.2.1).
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