Accessibility statement

Design Luxembourg is committed to making designluxembourg.lu accessible to everyone, including people with disabilities, whatever tool they use to browse it.

This statement applies to designluxembourg.lu, in its French and English versions. [To be completed: applicable legal framework — the Act of 28 May 2019 on the accessibility of the websites and mobile applications of public sector bodies, if Design Luxembourg is subject to it.]

The site aims for level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2. It is partially compliant with this level, because of the non-compliances listed below.

[To be completed: reference standard used for the evaluation, for instance the European standard EN 301 549.]

Non-compliances

• Contrast of blue text (success criterion 1.4.3): some blue text — button labels, the active navigation link, article categories, the format badge of documents, the directory filters — has a contrast ratio of 3.4:1 to 3.7:1 with its background, where 4.5:1 is required.
• Members’ area: the button that accompanies confirmation and error messages has a contrast ratio of 2.8:1 with its background (success criterion 1.4.3).
• Forms: the border of input fields has a contrast ratio of 1.5:1 with the background, where 3:1 is required to identify a field (success criterion 1.4.11).

Third-party content and documents

• Embedded videos are played by the YouTube and Vimeo players, whose accessibility is not under Design Luxembourg’s control. [To be completed: captions or transcripts of published videos.]
• Downloadable documents, notably PDF files, have not been evaluated yet. [To be completed.]

This statement was prepared on [To be completed: publication date]. It is based on a self-assessment:

• an automated check of the WCAG 2.2 A and AA rules (axe-core) on 80 pages of the site, on 1 October 2026, repeated since on every change to the site on a sample of representative pages, on desktop and mobile;
• a review of colour contrasts, component by component.

[To be completed: audit by an independent body, if any.]

If a barrier prevents you from accessing content or a service on the site, write to us at email hidden; JavaScript is required or use the Contact page, stating the page concerned and the difficulty you encountered. We will reply within [To be completed] and, if needed, provide the content in another form.

If you have reported an accessibility issue to us and are not satisfied with our answer, [To be completed: monitoring body and enforcement procedure — in Luxembourg, digital accessibility is monitored by the Government Information and Press Service, and the Ombudsman of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg may be contacted; to be checked against Design Luxembourg’s status].

Last updated: [To be completed].