Accessibility statement
This statement applies to content published on the domain: https://youth.europa.eu/
This website is managed by Directorate-General Education, Youth, Sport and Culture (DG EAC). 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 April 2024.
Preparation of this statement
The European Youth Portal team of DG EAC prepared this statement using a combination of manual and automated.
Manual testing was done using the latest versions of Axe and Wave tools and integrated to Firefox and Chrome browsers tools. Automated testing done using pa11y .
Feedback
We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of the ‘European Youth Portal’ website. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers:
- [E-mail]: EAC-EYP@ec.europa.eu
We try to respond to feedback within 15 business days from the date of receipt of the enquiry by the responsible Commission department.
Compatibility with browsers and assistive technology
The ‘European Youth Portal’ website is designed to be compatible with the following most used assistive technologies:
- the latest version of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari browsers;
- NVDA
Technical specifications
The accessibility of the ‘European Youth Portal’ 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 Youth Portal’ 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 Youth Portal’ website:
- Missing image description: Some images in the content do not have an image description. We are constantly working on ensuring that all images have an alt text description.
- Interactive maps: Interactive maps are not accessible to people with a vision impairment or users who rely on keyboard navigation. Also, some embedded elements to the map (buttons, markers, pins) do not have a name available to an accessibility API. We plan to fix this issue by October 2024.
- Insufficient contrast: Some elements have insufficient contrast in the Youth Week section, the European Solidarity Corps section, in the menu of the DiscoverEU section and inside interactive maps. We are planning to fix these issues by December 2024.
- PDF documents: Some documents are in PDF format and are not fully accessible.
- Anchor element found with a valid href attribute, but no link content has been supplied, for some elements in the Volunteering organisations list page. We plan to fix this issue by August 2024.