Status: 11 October 2026
Accessibility
Farleda's public claim is that evidence should be checkable by everyone. That has to include people who use a keyboard, a screen reader or reduced motion. This page states honestly what the site does today, what it does not do yet, and where to report barriers.
1. Our goal
We aim for the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, level AA across this website (farleda.eu). The European Accessibility Act and the harmonised standard EN 301 549 serve as our orientation for what "accessible" should mean in practice.
This is a statement of direction, not a conformity claim: no formal audit against WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549 has been completed yet. We prefer to say that plainly rather than publish a checkmark we cannot back up.
2. What the site does today
The following measures are implemented and part of the site's shared shell, so they apply to every page:
- Semantic structure. Pages use native landmarks (header, navigation, main, footer) and a consistent heading hierarchy.
- Skip link. A "Skip to content" link is the first focusable element on every page and jumps directly to the main content.
- Visible focus. A global focus ring marks the focused element for keyboard users on every interactive control.
- Keyboard-operable menus. The navigation, the mobile menu and expandable panels use native HTML disclosure elements that work with keyboard alone — no JavaScript required.
- Reduced motion. All animations are few, slow and local, and are disabled globally when the operating system requests reduced motion. No content is hidden behind an animation.
- Text alternatives. Content images carry descriptive alternative text; the product film has a readable text description on the page.
- Declared page languages. The full information site is available in English and German. Core journeys also support French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Polish; links to English specialist and legal pages are labelled. Language attributes support screen-reader pronunciation.
- No motion-, colour- or hover-only meaning. Information conveyed by colour (such as the verification state) is always paired with text.
3. Known limitations
These gaps are known and on the worklist:
- No formal audit yet. The site has not been evaluated end-to-end by an external accessibility auditor or with a full assistive-technology test matrix.
- Interactive API explorer. The request explorer on the developer page requires JavaScript. The documentation around it — endpoints, operations, governance — remains fully readable without it.
- Small supplementary labels. Some decorative monospace micro-labels (page registers, series markers) are set very small. They are supplementary and never the only way to reach the information.
- PDF documents. Downloadable documents (fact sheets, press kit) have not yet been checked for accessibility. Their content is available on the website itself.
- Scope. This statement covers the marketing website farleda.eu. The Farleda app has its own, still-evolving accessibility state and will be documented separately before public beta.
4. Feedback & contact
If you hit a barrier on this site, we want to know — a short description of the page and what blocked you is enough:
We read every report and answer personally. Security-relevant findings can also be reported via our published security policy: security.txt.
Status of this statement: 11 October 2026. It is updated when the site's accessibility posture changes.
