Availability report
What is WCAG?
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are recommendations for how digital content can be made more accessible, for example for people with poor vision or limited mobility. The WCAG guidelines include both computers, tablets and mobile phones. WCAG is a technical standard with a lot of content, and some are aimed more at technologists than designers, but in summary we can say that the recommendations cover four important principles.
Principle 1. Perceptible
Information must be presented in a way that the user can perceive. This means that information should not only be perceived with a single sense. To see graphics, for example, you need a screen and the sense of sight. Therefore, images must have an alternative text, according to WCAG. Text can also be presented in many different ways, including Braille, synthetic speech, on a screen, interpreted as sign language or as a symbol. WCAG therefore requires that text be used as an alternative to sound, film and images.
Principle 2. Operable
Web is interactive. It is important that visitors can, for example, navigate, select buttons and put ticks in checkboxes, with the equipment and assistive technology they use. This means, for example, that it should not only be possible to use a mouse. All content and functionality must also be usable only with the keyboard.
Principle 3. Comprehensible
The goal of websites is for users to understand how the pages are to be used and the information they receive. It is about the website being predictable, having a simple language and good help functionality. Correct coding is important for the website to work with assistive technology, for example the correct language on the page will ensure that the text is read out in the correct way for users with speech synthesis.
Principle 4. Robust
The content on the website must be reliable and available without delay. Correct coding of the website is important to ensure this, and it is especially important when using new technology or self-developed elements.
Status of the site
We use the webaim.org tool to check the accessibility of our website. This helps us identify problems and areas of potential for improvement. We are continuously working on improving the accessibility of the website.
Contact us about availability
We hope to hear from you if you experience problems with accessibility or if you have other comments or specific suggestions for what we can improve on the website.
- Have you discovered errors and shortcomings related to the universal design of the website?
- Need an alternative to content that isn’t universally designed?
- Do you have suggestions for improvements to the website?
Use our contact form to reach out.
