Questions About Specific Website Types
Different website types bring different accessibility challenges. Online shops, web applications and content websites each have their own critical areas requiring special attention.
- Which shop platforms can you optimize for accessibility? We work across platforms, including Shopware Community Edition, CMS-based shops, custom solutions built on modern JavaScript frameworks and headless commerce architectures. WCAG…
- Do product images also need accessible descriptions? Yes. Informative product images need meaningful alt texts that describe the product and purchase-relevant features, such as color, material or variant. A good alt text conveys…
- How accessible are CMS default themes? This varies widely, and you should not rely on the claim that a theme is accessible across the board. Even well-meaning themes frequently show basic defects in practice: missing…
- Can third-party plugins and widgets cause barriers? Yes, and they rank among the most frequent and most awkward sources of problems, because they partly escape your direct control. Cookie banners, chat widgets, social media embeds…
- What about PDFs and downloadable documents? PDFs that are part of your service, such as invoices, contract documents, manuals or downloadable forms, should be accessible too. The decisive format here is tagged PDF with…
- Does my intranet need to be accessible? From the BFSG's perspective not directly: the law addresses products and services for consumers, so purely internal systems like an employee intranet do not fall within its scope…