Strategic the Technologies for Europe Platform website
This statement applies to content published on the domain: ‘https://strategic-technologies.europa.eu’
It does not apply to other content or websites published on any of its subdomains. These websites and their content will have their own specific accessibility statement.
This website is managed by the Directorate-General for budget, European Commission. It is designed to be used by as many people as possible, including persons 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 2025.
Preparation of this statement
This statement was prepared on 30 April 2025.
The statement is based on a review of a representative sample of web pages by an IAAP-qualified accessibility expert, using a combination of manual and automated testing.
Feedback
We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform website. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers:
- Phone: 00 800 6 7 8 9 10 11
- Contact form: Write to us (please refrain from providing sensitive information in the form, e.g. any information that would reveal personal financial information, information related to your health, or any other sensitive topic).
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 Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform website is designed to be compatible with the following most used assistive technologies:
- the latest version of Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari browsers;
- in combination with the latest versions of NVDA, VoiceOver and TalkBack.
Technical specifications
The accessibility of the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform 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 the accessibility of the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform 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 Commission website:
- Heading hierarchy: Some headings do not follow the correct heading hierarchy, which can cause problems for screen reader users. We plan to fix this by end of 2025.
- Page Title: Page titles are not always sufficiently descriptive because they don't include the name of the site. We plan to fix this by July 2025.
- Focus issue: Keyboard focus can move behind the sticky cookie consent banner at the bottom of the page. We plan to fix this by July 2025.
- External links open without warning: Some links open a new window (or tab) without warning. We plan to fix this by end of July 2025.
- Footer: Links in the footer are not always visually distinguishable from ordinary text. We plan to fix this by end of July 2025.
- Graphs and charts – use of colour: Some graphs and charts on the website rely on colour alone to communicate information, which is confusing for people with colour vision deficiency. In charts where labels are not visually associated with the corresponding coloured section, clicking on the labels in the legends toggles the corresponding line, bar or section on or off, which allows users to check which label belongs to which part of the chart.
- Video player – keyboard accessibility: We are aware of some issues with the keyboard accessibility of our video player (when selecting the caption language from the menu, it is not possible to use the arrow keys to move between languages, this can only be done with the TAB key).
- Audio description: Videos on this website do not have audio description.
Known limitations for the European Commission platform dashboard:
- The navigation and selection of some elements in Qlik Dashboards are not accessible via keyboard.
- When zooming the page to 200%, some content becomes invisible, and graphs disappear.
- Some content is available only on hover or focus states.
- In some data visualization elements, it is not visually clear where the current focus is located.
- Interface controls and non-text elements do not meet the minimum color contrast requirements (3:1)
- Some elements have text contrast that does not meet the minimum color contrast requirements (4.5:1)
- Some interactive elements do not have appropriate roles and accessible names.
- Some links have names that do not describe accurately their purpose.
These issues are caused by third party QlickSense tool built in features. We could expect to be solved in the upcoming releases.