Accessibility of the website afair.de
Messe Augsburg strives to make its websites 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://afair.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 stated 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 deficiencies and shortcomings are currently being addressed through 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 27, 2025.
The following areas were identified as not fully accessible during the review:
- Not all non-text content (e.g., images, icons, controls) is provided with alternative text or appropriate descriptions for screen readers.
- Structural information such as headings, table relationships, or groupings in forms is not consistently marked correctly, which prevents assistive technologies from reliably interpreting the content.
- Content usage is sometimes dependent on a specific screen orientation (e.g., portrait or landscape), which limits usability, especially on mobile devices.
- On small screens or at high zoom levels, horizontal scrolling or layout issues may occur, as content does not always reflow properly.
- Graphical controls (e.g., icons, buttons) do not always have sufficient contrast with the background, affecting their visibility and usability.
- Certain text areas fall below the required contrast ratio of 4.5:1, making them difficult to read for many user groups.
- Moving content such as automatically running sliders or animations cannot always be paused, stopped, or hidden, which may hinder perception of other content.
- There is no option to skip recurring content like navigation bars, for example via “Skip to Content” links.
- Navigation is inconsistent or does not consistently offer alternative ways to access all pages (e.g., search function, sitemap).
- The visible highlight of keyboard focus is not clearly recognizable in all areas of the website, making orientation difficult for keyboard users.
- The application does not consistently respect user-defined settings such as enlarged fonts, increased contrast, or other operating system adaptations.
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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