Accessibility statement

How accessible microgreens.org.gr is, what we have verified, the problems we know about and have not yet fixed, and how to tell us if something blocks you.

This site publishes free, openly licensed teaching material. Material that some people cannot read is not free to them, so accessibility is part of whether this portal does its job at all — not an afterthought or a compliance exercise.

This statement describes the real state of the site as at 28 July 2026. It includes the problems we know about and have not yet fixed. We would rather tell you where the site falls short than claim a level of conformance we have not demonstrated.

What we are aiming for

We aim to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at level AA. This is the standard referenced by European accessibility legislation and the one most partners will expect of project outputs.

Compliance status

This site is partially conformant with WCAG 2.1 level AA. “Partially conformant” means most of the site meets the standard, but some content does not — the specific exceptions are listed below.

What we have checked, and what works

The following were verified across ten representative pages — the homepage, the contact page, the About page, a programme landing page, the toolkits page, the crop-variety index, the cookbook, the Erasmus+ page, the terms page and a Science Library article:

  • Every page has exactly one main heading, and the page language is declared in the markup.
  • Every page has a skip-to-content link and proper landmark regions, so keyboard and screen-reader users can bypass the navigation.
  • Every field in the contact forms has a programmatically associated label. This matters more than anything else here, because the contact form is the only thing on this site we ask anyone to fill in.
  • Every image has descriptive alt text. All 91 images in our articles and pages, and all 110 featured images that appear in category listings, related-article cards and social previews, now carry a written description of what the image actually shows — checked by looking at each one, not inferred from its title or filename. Where an image contains text, a chart or a label, that information is carried into the description. Every embedded slide deck has a descriptive frame title.
  • No link or button was found without an accessible name, and no vague “click here” link text.
  • Pinch-zoom is not disabled, and nothing forces itself out of the natural keyboard order.
  • Two colour-contrast failures found in a July 2026 review — in the hero button and in the navigation hover state — were corrected.

Known problems we have not fixed

These are real and current. If one of them affects you, please tell us — it moves the item up the list.

  • Heading levels skip on article pages. The “Related Posts” block at the foot of each article is marked up as a level-5 heading immediately after a level-3 heading, so the document outline jumps a level. Screen-reader users navigating by heading will notice the gap. It comes from a theme component we cannot change without modifying the theme itself; fixing it properly is on our list.
  • One embedded video. There is a single YouTube video embedded on the site. We did not produce it and have not verified whether it carries accurate captions.
  • The pop-up contact form has not been tested with assistive technology. The “Contact us” button in the header opens the contact form in an overlay. We have confirmed it is completely hidden from keyboard and screen-reader users while closed, but we have not tested how it behaves once open — whether focus moves into it correctly and stays there. Until we have, the contact page carries the same form as an ordinary page, and that is the route we recommend.
  • Colour contrast has not been checked exhaustively. We checked the site’s shared components and templates, not every one of the 120-plus articles individually.

Content we do not control

The four teaching toolkits are published as slide decks hosted on Google Slides and embedded here. We have labelled each frame so it is announced properly, but the accessibility of the Google Slides viewer itself is not ours to change. The same applies to the research papers linked from the Science Library: those are published by journals under their own arrangements.

If a toolkit is not usable for you in that format, ask us and we will send you the content in another one. Our material is published under CC BY 4.0, so we are free to give it to you however you need it, at no cost and with no conditions attached.

How we assessed this site

This statement was prepared on 28 July 2026 by self-assessment. We ran automated checks across ten representative pages and the full article set, then reviewed the results by hand — discarding several that turned out to be artefacts of the testing method rather than real defects, and keeping the ones listed above.

What we have not done, and you should know it: this site has not been audited by an independent accessibility specialist, and it has not been tested by disabled people using their own assistive technology. Automated tools detect only a minority of accessibility barriers — they are good at spotting a missing label and bad at judging whether a page actually makes sense to use. A clean automated result is not the same as an accessible site, and we are not presenting it as one.

Tell us about a problem

If something on this site blocks you, or if you need a page or a toolkit in a different format — larger text, plain text, an accessible document, or something else — write to erasmus@evec.org.gr and tell us what you were trying to do and what got in the way. A real person reads it, and we aim to reply within five working days.

You do not need to identify the technical cause or quote a guideline. “I could not get past the form on this page” is a complete and useful report.

We will keep this statement current as things change — including when the list of known problems gets shorter.

Last reviewed 28 July 2026. Changed since first publication: all images across the site were given written alt text, so the previously listed problem of images marked as decorative without review no longer applies; nineteen images that had been loading from another domain were brought into this site, which also gave them proper descriptions.

Co-funded by the European Union.
This portal presents the microgreens methodology; the organisation behind it is EVEC Athens — the European Voluntary and Educational Center (evec.org.gr). Views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Commission. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

Open licence. Except where stated otherwise, the educational materials on this portal are licensed under CC BY 4.0 — free to use, adapt and share, including commercially, with credit. See the licence terms.

Accessibility. We aim for WCAG 2.1 AA and publish what does and does not yet meet it — see the accessibility statement. If anything here blocks you, tell us and we will send the material in a format that works for you.