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European Education and Culture Executive Agency

Accessibility

This statement applies to content published on the domain: https://www.eacea.ec.europa.eu/

It does not apply to other content or websites published on any of its subdomains. These websites and their content will have their own specific accessibility statement.

This website is managed by European Education and Culture Executive Agency. It is designed to be used by as many people as possible, including people with disabilities.

You should be able to:

  • zoom up to 200% without problems
  • navigate most of the website using just a keyboard
  • navigate most of the website using a modern screen reader and speech recognition software (on your computer or phone).

This website is designed to comply with the technical standard for websites and mobile apps, EN 301 549,  v.3.2.1. This closely follows level ‘AA’ of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2.1.

Compliance status

This website is partially compliant with technical standard EN 301 549 v.3.2.1 and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AA. See ‘Non-accessible content’ for more details.

The website was last tested on 20 May 2023.

Preparation of this statement

This statement was reviewed on 27 September 2023, through a self-assessment done by the public sector body.

Feedback

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of the 'European Education and Culture Executive Agency' website. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers:

Compatibility with browsers and assistive technology

The ‘European Education and Culture Executive Agency’ website is designed to be compatible with the following most used assistive technologies:

  • the latest version of Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Apple Safari browsers;
  • in combination with the latest versions of JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver and TalkBack.

Technical specifications

The accessibility of the ‘European Education and Culture Executive Agency’ website relies on the following technologies to work with the particular combination of web browser and any assistive technologies or plugins installed on your computer:

  • HTML
  • WAI-ARIA
  • CSS
  • JavaScript

Non-accessible content

Despite our best efforts to ensure accessibility of the ‘European Education and Culture Executive Agency’ website, we are aware of some limitations, which we are working to fix. Below is a description of known limitations and potential solutions. Please contact us if you encounter an issue not listed below.

Known limitations for the ‘European Education and Culture Executive Agency’ website:

  • (EWPP) Navigation menu accessibility: Some content has not been properly coded for the best experience with a screen reader. We plan to fix this issue by end of 2024.
  • Organisation chart: The current version of organisation chart published is not accessible to people with a vision impairment or users who rely on keyboard navigation. We plan to fix this issue over the course of 2024.
  • Video captions: Some of our videos do not have captions. We are continuously working on adding them to more videos.​
  • Video player – keyboard accessibility: We are aware of some issues with the keyboard accessibility of our video player (when selecting the caption language from the menu, it is not possible to use the arrow keys to move between languages, this can only be done with the TAB key).
  • Heading Hierarchy: Some pages do not present content in an hierarchical heading organization. We plan to fix this by end of 2024.
  • Sliding captcha: We are aware of the issues with the keyboard focus of the slider. We plan to fix this issue over the course of 2024. It is important to note that the sliding captcha is not accessible to deaf-blind users.
  • Some images do not have alt text descriptions.
  • Some buttons and/or links don’t have readable text.
  • Many documents are in PDF format and are not accessible.