Accessibility statement

Whether the crawled pages link an accessibility statement: how the site was tested, what is not accessible yet, and who to write to about it. The European Accessibility Act has asked consumer services sold into the EU for one since June 2025, and public bodies have owed one for longer. This row appears only where the scan has reason to think the rules reach this site.

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An accessibility statement describes how accessible the site is: which standard it aims for (usually WCAG 2.1 AA, the basis of EN 301 549), what is known not to work yet and why, when and how it was assessed, and whom to contact when someone cannot use a part of it. Public bodies in the EU have owed one under the Web Accessibility Directive for years; since 28 June 2025 the European Accessibility Act extends similar duties to consumer services such as online shops, booking and ticketing, banking and e-books. Microenterprises are exempt from the service duties.

When the row appears

SiteScan shows this row only where it has a reason to think the rules apply: the site is addressed to Europe and either looks like a public body (.gov, .gouv, .bund.de, europa.eu and similar), runs a shop platform, describes products, offers or bookings in its structured data, or links to a cart, checkout or booking page. A site that publishes a statement anyway always gets the row.

• Green — a statement is linked from a crawled page.
• Amber — none was found; the report adds a low-severity note.

Publish the statement on its own page and link it from the footer next to the other legal pages. See also accessibility checks.