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1. Glossary

   Accessibility Act (BaFG)

   The Accessibility Act (BaFG) is Austria's implementation of the European Accessibility Act; it has applied since 28 June 2025 and covers companies providing one of the services exhaustively …

   glossar › digitale-barrierefreiheit › barrierefreiheitsgesetz-bafg
2. Glossary

   Accessibility Overlays (Criticism of Overlay Widgets)

   Accessibility overlays are JavaScript widgets added on top of an existing website that claim to make it accessible automatically, for example through font-size sliders, contrast switches or …

   glossar › digitale-barrierefreiheit › accessibility-overlay-kritik
3. Glossary

   Accessibility Statement

   An accessibility statement is a page documenting the current accessibility status of a digital service, its known limitations and a way to contact the operator with feedback. For public sect …

   glossar › digitale-barrierefreiheit › barrierefreiheitserklaerung
4. Glossary

   Accessibility Testing Tools (axe, WAVE, Lighthouse)

   Accessibility testing tools such as axe, WAVE and Lighthouse are the best-known automated checkers for testing websites against technical WCAG failures. Among them, axe (Deque) runs as a bro …

   glossar › digitale-barrierefreiheit › barrierefreiheit-testing-tools
5. Glossary

   Cognitive Accessibility

   Cognitive accessibility is the design of digital services for people with impairments of attention, memory, learning or processing, shaped in large part by the W3C Cognitive and Learning Dis …

   glossar › digitale-barrierefreiheit › kognitive-barrierefreiheit
6. Glossary

   EAA (European Accessibility Act)

   The European Accessibility Act (EAA, Directive (EU) 2019/882) is an EU directive that sets uniform accessibility requirements across all member states for certain products and services, incl …

   glossar › digitale-barrierefreiheit › eaa
7. Glossary

   Subtitles & Video Accessibility

   Video accessibility means making the spoken content of videos available through synchronised subtitles and, ideally, transcripts, so that deaf and hard-of-hearing users, or anyone watching w …

   glossar › digitale-barrierefreiheit › untertitel-video
8. Glossary

   Text-to-Speech for Accessibility

   Text-to-speech (TTS) converts written text automatically into spoken language and is provided through operating system features, browser extensions or dedicated read-aloud buttons on website …

   glossar › digitale-barrierefreiheit › text-to-speech-barrierefreiheit
9. Glossary

   aria-hidden

   … attribute that removes an element and all of its children from the accessibility tree, hiding it from screen readers without changing the visible rendering. The accessibility tree is the dat …

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10. Glossary

    EN 301 549

    EN 301 549 is the European standard for the accessibility of ICT products and services; the version cited in the Official Journal of the EU, V3.2.1 (2021-03), points for websites and mobile …

    glossar › digitale-barrierefreiheit › en-301-549