Accessibility statement

Our position in one sentence

We designed this site with accessibility in mind, we have not had the result audited, and we therefore claim no conformance level. This page exists so you know exactly where we stand, not to display a label.

Why this caution

A website can follow a long list of good practices and still be unusable on one specific point with one specific screen reader. Only an audit carried out by a competent person, on real cases and with real assistive technologies, allows one to state that a level has been reached. We have not carried out that audit, so we claim nothing that has not been measured.

What this page is not

This document is neither a certificate of conformance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines nor a statement under any legal obligation to which we would be subject. It is a voluntary commitment, worded so that it can be verified.

What we have done on this site

The points below were built in from the design stage and checked by us during development. They are work done, not intentions.

Text contrast

Text and background colours were chosen to offer a contrast ratio sufficient for reading, including on dark backgrounds and on interface elements. We checked these ratios with measuring tools during design, in particular for body text and buttons.

Keyboard navigation

All links, buttons and form fields can be reached with the keyboard, in an order that follows the visual reading of the page. The element receiving focus is visually marked, clearly enough to remain findable. No focus trap has been introduced deliberately.

Respecting the reduced-motion preference

The site includes transitions and scroll-triggered appearances. When your operating system reports a preference for reduced motion, these effects are disabled or strongly attenuated. This preference is respected without you having to do anything on the site.

Heading structure

Each page carries a single main heading, followed by an ordered hierarchy of subheadings with no skipped levels. This structure makes it possible to browse a page by its headings with a screen reader, which remains the fastest way to find one's bearings.

Alternative text

Images that carry information come with alternative text describing what they contribute. Purely decorative images are marked as such so as not to clutter the reading. We apply this rule to every content addition.

Zoom and resizing

The layout relies on relative units, so text can be enlarged without content overlapping or disappearing. The site remains usable on a small screen and with a magnified display.

Markup fundamentals

The language of each page is declared, form fields are associated with a visible label, links carry wording that makes sense out of context, and the main content can be found through a structural landmark.

What we have not yet done

This section is the most important on the page. We prefer to list our gaps rather than let a person concerned discover them by running into them.

No formal audit

The site has not been the subject of any accessibility audit by a body or a specialised person. We have therefore carried out no systematic criterion-by-criterion evaluation, and we hold no report we could pass on to you.

No tests with assistive technologies

We have not tested the site with screen readers, nor with voice control, nor with alternative pointing devices. Our checks were limited to keyboard navigation and automatic checking tools, which detect only part of the real obstacles.

No tests with users concerned

No person with a disability took part in designing or reviewing the site. It is the most useful check of all, and it is the one we lack.

Points we know can be improved

Some scroll-triggered appearances can disturb sequential reading when the reduced-motion preference is not active. Documents we may offer for download are not systematically produced in an accessible format. The consistency of alternative texts across all pages has not been reviewed globally since going live.

No level claimed

We declare neither full nor partial conformance with any level of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, because such a declaration presupposes an evaluation we have not conducted. Writing a level without having measured it would be an inaccurate claim about our own services.

The framework we operate in

A few points of reference to understand what applies to a site like ours and what we do beyond that.

The reference we use

We rely on the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines published by the World Wide Web Consortium, the international reference in this field. We use them as a design guide, without claiming formal conformance.

Swiss law

The federal law on the elimination of inequalities affecting people with disabilities primarily targets services of the Confederation and buildings and facilities open to the public. Exactly how it applies to a showcase site run by a private company has no settled answer we could repeat here. We apply these principles voluntarily, without waiting for an obligation to force us.

Our consistency

We help companies put in place tools their teams must be able to use. It would be hard for us to talk about ergonomics and adoption if our own site excluded part of its visitors. That is the main reason this page exists.

Reporting an obstacle

If a page resisted you, tell us. A precise report is worth more than an endlessly postponed audit.

How to write to us

Send a message to office@lyvia.swiss with the word accessibility in the subject line. If possible, describe the address of the page concerned, what you were trying to do, what happened, and the hardware or software you were using. These details let us reproduce the problem instead of guessing it.

What we do with it

We acknowledge receipt within five working days and say whether the problem can be reproduced and within what timeframe we expect to fix it. When a fix takes time, we propose in the meantime a way to obtain the information or complete the step through another channel.

An alternative that is always available

If part of the site remains inaccessible to you, you can reach us directly by email at office@lyvia.swiss or by post at LYVIA SNC, Kleinschönberg 10, 1700 Fribourg. No process with us depends exclusively on an online form.

If our answer does not satisfy you

You can turn to the Federal Bureau for the Equality of People with Disabilities, which informs and advises on equality matters, or to an organisation active in this field. We do not regard such recourse as an attack, and we obviously prefer to settle the question directly with you.

What we plan

We announce here only work we genuinely intend to carry out, with no dates we could not keep.

An external audit

We plan to have the site evaluated by a person competent in digital accessibility and to publish the result on this page, including if it is severe. We will then update this statement with the level actually reached and the list of non-conformities found.

Tests with a screen reader

We plan to go through the entire site with at least one widespread screen reader and fix what shows up. This work will precede the external audit, because it avoids paying for an expert review to discover obvious mistakes.

Content review

We plan a systematic review of alternative texts and link wording across all pages, as well as a check of how the site behaves when animations are disabled.

Updating this page

This statement will be updated at each step completed, and its version date will bear the trace. If you reread it in six months and it has not moved, nothing has progressed, and you will be entitled to point that out to us.