Accessibility

We build migrada.eu and the app to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA. Version 2.1 at level AA is the standard behind the European norm EN 301 549, which the European Accessibility Act and the Austrian Barrierefreiheitsgesetz build on.

We are not there on every screen yet. This page says where we are.

• Contrast. Text has a contrast of at least 4.5 to 1 against its background.
• Keyboard. Every link, button and form works without a mouse. Focus is always visible and a "Skip to content" link is the first stop on every page.
• Structure. Pages have one main heading, a main area and lists that are real lists, so a screen reader can move through them.
• Names. Buttons, form fields and progress marks have a name that is read out. Decorative pictures are hidden from screen readers.
• Words, not only colour. Errors and states are written out. Nothing depends on colour alone.
• Motion. If your device asks for reduced motion, animations are switched off.
• Small screens. Pages work on a phone 320 pixels wide without scrolling sideways. Wide tables scroll inside their own frame.
• Plain language. Short sentences, the English word first and the official German word after it.

On 10 November 2026 we ran an automated check with axe-core against the WCAG 2.2 rules for levels A and AA. It covered the home page, the plan form, the Russian page, the guides, the blog, the community, the pages for universities and every legal page, at desktop and phone width. We fixed everything it found.

We also tested these pages with the keyboard: the first stop is "Skip to content", focus is always visible and nothing traps it. And we checked that none of them scrolls sideways on a phone 320 pixels wide.

An automated check finds only part of the problems. A full audit by hand, with people who use screen readers, has not been done yet.

• The app behind the sign in was checked in parts, not screen by screen.
• Where text sits on a picture, a gradient or a moving element, the check could not measure its contrast. We still have to look at those places by eye.
• Charts and comparison tables in some blog articles are hard to follow with a screen reader.
• The document check reads photos and scans. If uploading does not work for you, write to us and a person helps.
• Our emails have not been tested with screen readers.

If something on Migrada does not work for you, write to [email protected]. Tell us the page and what you use, for example a screen reader or the keyboard only. We read every message and fix what we can.

The guidelines themselves are at w3.org/TR/WCAG22.