Accessibility Statement
Our starting point
The European Accessibility Act has applied since 28 June 2025 and is aimed primarily at e-commerce and consumer services. Whether an information and comparison site like TradeOnDEX falls fully within its scope is not settled in every case. We are not waiting to find out: we hold ourselves to the requirements as though they apply, and we work towards WCAG 2.2 level AA. Where we fall short, it is named below rather than left out.
Target level
TradeOnDEX aims for WCAG 2.2, level AA as a baseline, with AAA where feasible without harming readability or design, the site's color palette, for example, is calculated against AAA contrast and fixed in the design tokens every page uses. See the methodology page for the background on editorial choices.
What's concretely built in
- Visible focus indicators on every interactive element (never
outline: nonewithout a replacement). - A "Skip to content" skip link as the first focusable element on every page.
- Color is never the only carrier of information (e.g. for price up/down), always accompanied by an arrow or text label, because of red-green color blindness in part of the audience.
- Font sizes exclusively in
rem/clamp(), so visitors' system font-size settings are respected. prefers-reduced-motionis respected: animations are off by default and only enabled when a visitor hasn't explicitly asked to avoid them.- A correct
langattribute on the<html>tag that follows the page's language (nloren). - Semantic landmarks (
header,navwitharia-label,main,footer) and a logical focus order matching the visual order.
How this is tested, automated and manual
Automated tools like axe-core and Lighthouse run on every build in this site's CI pipeline. Important to know, and the reason this isn't the whole story: together they catch at most about 40% of WCAG criteria (roughly 29.5% fully automatable, 10.3% partially), keyboard operability, focus management, and screen-reader semantics in particular require manual review. Automated checks catch contrast, missing alt text, and unlinked form labels, but not an illogical focus order or an unusable screen-reader experience.
That's why this site also has a manual testing round before every major release: full keyboard operation without a mouse, and at least one real test with a screen reader (NVDA, free, Windows, or VoiceOver, built into Mac/iOS). This manual step is not automated and stays human work.
Known limitations
The automated checks pass on every build, but a full manual screen-reader test has not been carried out. Exactly what those checks cannot judge, the logical focus order and how understandable the page structure is when read aloud, has therefore not been independently verified. If that leaves you stuck somewhere, report it via contact and we will pick it up.
Contact about accessibility
Hit an accessibility barrier on this site? Report it via contact, describing the problem and, if possible, the page and device/assistive technology used (e.g. browser + screen reader). Reports are incorporated into the content-maintenance cycle.