Do you have any improvements on the Sitejet roadmap in order to meet the requirements of BFSG in 2025 (German law which implements European Accessibility Act)?
Oh yes, that would be nice to know 
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Thank you @Barbara_Bichler for this suggestion.
I have created a feature request ticket for it.
For everyone who wants to support this feature, please comment here with a +1 and let us know if you also have some ideas regarding this topic.
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We will discuss this in our next product meeting and do some research.
Hey Barbara,
Thank you so much for informing us. We have discussed this internally, and we are looking into this observing any changes we might need to do. So far, it seems that the new requirements are mostly the responsibility of the web designers, such as “Alt Text”, “Subtitles for Videos”, “Semantically correct labeling” etc.
We do have an article with some guidelines about this:
If you or anybody is missing anything in there or any feature that we may have overlooked for now, please let us know. We could also use this thread for more information and articles about this topic.
Let me know what you think?
Dear Barbara,
Dear all,
The topic of accessibility is approaching us rapidly. According to the reports I have read, small businesses with fewer than 10 employees and less than 2 million in revenue are exempt from certain regulations.
However, I have come across different interpretations of which regulations these are.
The claim that websites launched before June 2025 can remain as they are until 2030 is also vague. I have read elsewhere that this only applies to archives and sites that have not been updated for years.
If that is the case, most of the websites we create for clients would not be protected by this exemption.
Additionally, some sources claim that all measures taken to make a website accessible must be documented.
Some tasks can be handled by us as web designers (e.g., adding meaningful alt tags to images). Other tasks, such as ensuring that a submit button can be triggered with the Return key or that a dropdown menu can be navigated using only the keyboard, are beyond our capabilities. These require support from SiteJet.
From my work with other companies, I know that they are developing checking systems (similar to what SiteJet already uses, where it verifies whether an H1 and H2 are present or if a link is broken).
These systems indicate when contrast is too low, font sizes are too small, or alt tags are missing.
Perhaps, in the future, external providers will offer accessibility testing for websites. However, this will likely come with additional costs. Launching a website is becoming increasingly expensive and legally uncertain (cookie consent banners are already an overwhelming market).
If we don’t want our clients to turn to Instagram or Facebook, we need to find a way to meet these new requirements.
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Hey there, do you have some links for your research? Happy to add them to our internal process for research.
Unfortunately, I dont understand the last sentence about Meta products. Can you elaborate that take?
Dear Andre,
the last sentence was more of a remark. I have noticed a great deal of uncertainty among my clients when it comes to running their own website.
People who make their living by creating art, furniture, or providing patient care don’t want to spend their evenings dealing with their website and wondering whether all the contrasts are correct.
As a result, many prefer to shut down their own website entirely and rely solely on Instagram or Facebook—where they don’t have to worry about whether the cookie consent banner is working properly or whether hotlinks are distinguishable enough from the main text.
Dear Andre,
For my research, I have reviewed the websites listed below.
The one from the federal government, in particular, provides checklists. However, if everything on that list needs to be implemented, none of my previous websites would be fully accessible to that extent.
The other sources are also interesting but contain some contradictory information in certain areas.
Schalk und Friends writes:
“Barrierefreiheit ist in vielen Bereichen verpflichtend. Ab dem 28.06.2025 gilt das insbesondere für öffentliche Einrichtungen und Unternehmen, die staatliche Dienstleistungen anbieten … oder essenzielle Dienstleistungen anbieten”
On the other websites, it says that all websites of companies above a certain size are affected.
I got my information from these websites:
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For example AKTION MENSCH wrotes you have to:
- Sie müssen eine barrierefrei zugängliche „Erklärung zur Barrierefreiheit” auf Ihrer Internetseite veröffentlichen. Diese Erklärung enthält Informationen darüber, wie Sie die Barrierefreiheit sicherstellen, sowie über die Teile Ihrer Website oder Ihres Onlineshops, welche (noch) nicht barrierefrei sind.
- Ihre Internetseite muss eine Kontaktmöglichkeit bieten, mit der Nutzer*innen Barrieren melden können.
It is not clear to me how such a report must be written, but this information shows: “It would not be easy”
The so-called quick test is anything but quick and includes many individual tests.
One more example, and then I’ll leave you to read through the links.
The captcha I am offered via the SiteJet forms works purely visually. This should no longer be possible in the future. Captchas must also be solvable via audio to allow, for example, blind users to solve them as well. Though that is actually one of the easier tasks.
Thank you @Frank_Joerns - I have forwarded all information to the internal process and also connected this with the Captcha feature requests. Good catch on that one. I am not in on this process and not much in that topic myself, therefore I made sure that the persons in charge of this will read through this information.