Accessibility

Web accessibility means making sure that everyone, including persons with disabilities, can access information on the internet.

Accessibility is essential to persons with disabilities but useful to everyone. For instance, having a good colour contrast ratio between text and background is essential to people with some visual impairments, but it also makes the text more readable under different lighting conditions such as sunlight and glare.

The Parliament is committed to making its websites accessible by complying with the European standard EN 301 549 v3.2.1. This standard closely follows the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 level AA.

This accessibility statement applies to content published on the domain https://elections.europa.eu/.

This website is partially compliant with the European standard EN 301 549 v3.2.1 and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 level AA. For more details, check the section 'Non-accessible content'.

You should be able to:

• zoom in up to 400% on the website without problems
• navigate the website using only a keyboard
• navigate most of the website using assistive technology like a screen reader or a magnifier

In our tests, we identified issues with some components of the website when using assistive technologies in mobile devices. These issues occur even though these components have been coded in accordance with the specifications. These issues do not occur with similar assistive technologies in desktop devices.

Date on which this statement was prepared: 24/10/2024.

We periodically perform in-depth accessibility assessments that include manual, automated, and screen reader tests by accessibility experts. Apart from this, we continuously monitor the accessibility of the website and perform specific tests before adding new content or functionalities.

Despite our best efforts to ensure the accessibility of the website, we are aware of some limitations. Please let us know if you find an issue that is not listed below.

Web pages under https://elections.europa.eu/en/parliament-president/:

• the video player does not fully follow the accessibility standards
• videos do not have captions
• a transcript is available only in English

Based on our tests and despite limitations, users of assistive technologies and keyboard only should be able to operate the video player.

Web pages under https://elections.europa.eu/european-commission/en/:

• the video player does not fully follow the accessibility standards
• documents do not fully follow the accessibility standards

Based on our tests and despite limitations, most documents are readable by assistive technologies.

Web pages under https://results.elections.europa.eu/:

• some graphs, maps or charts are not accessible to assistive technologies. In these cases, the same information is available in table format
• some components have issues detected by automated accessibility verification tools

Based on our tests and despite limitations, all users should be able to access the content and operate the components of these web pages.

Full datasheets are available in spreadsheet format (“CSV” files) on the following web page: "Election results - Download datasheets".

Beyond these limitations, all the web pages included in our in-depth accessibility assessment are fully compliant with the European standard EN 301 549 v3.2.1 and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 level AA.

Reporting your experience will help us to further improve the accessibility of our website.

Please let us know if you encounter any problems, if you need access to inaccessible information or if you find any of our features particularly useful. We will get back to you as soon as possible.