Accessibility

Accessibility means ensuring that there are no barriers for preventing interaction with websites or documents. Ensuring an accessible website is now mandatory under law for the public sector. In making a page or document accessible, I frequently have to:

• Add image descriptions to graphic elements used in non-decorative manners.
• Ensure the logical hierarchy of the document (e.g. heading levels)
• Ensure that abbreviations are explained
• Ensure that for screenreaders that words that are pronounced as per other languages (e.g. English jargon in a German text) are marked accordingly.

This helps ensure that our reports, soft law publications etc. are accessible to all intended readers regardless of whether or not they have a visual impairment.