Oceans and Fisheries website
This statement applies to all the pages published on the domain: https://oceans-and-fisheries.ec.europa.eu/
The Oceans and Fisheries website is managed by the Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries. It is designed to be used by as many people as possible, including people with disabilities.
You should be able to
- zoom up to 200% without problems
- navigate most of the website using just a keyboard
- navigate most of the website using a modern screen reader and speech recognition software (on your computer or phone)]
Compliance status
This website is partially compliant with technical standard EN 301 549 v.3.2.1 and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AA.
The website was last tested on 20 December 2022.
Preparation and review of this statement
This statement was prepared on 17 July 2026.
The statement is based on a review of a representative sample of web pages by an IAAP-qualified accessibility expert, using a combination of manual and automated testing.
Feedback
We welcome your feedback on this website's accessibility. If you experience any accessibility issues, please contact us:
- Phone: 00 800 6 7 8 9 10 11
- Contact form: Write to us (please refrain from providing sensitive information in the form, e.g. any information that would reveal personal financial information, information related to your health, or any other sensitive topic).
We aim to reply within 15 business days.
Non-accessible content
We do our best to ensure this website is accessible. However, we know some parts of the website are not yet fully accessible, and we are working to improve them. Below is the list of the main accessibility issues we are aware of, and, where possible, our plans to fix them.
Known issues
- Heading hierarchy: Some headings do not follow the correct heading hierarchy, which can cause problems for screen reader users.
- Graphs and charts – use of colour: Some graphs and charts on the website rely on colour alone to communicate information, which is confusing for people with colour vision deficiency. In charts where labels are not visually associated with the corresponding coloured section, clicking on the labels in the legends toggles the corresponding line, bar or section on or off, which allows users to check which label belongs to which part of the chart.
- Video player – keyboard accessibility: We are aware of some issues with the keyboard accessibility of our video player (when selecting the caption language from the menu, it is not possible to use the arrow keys to move between languages, this can only be done with the TAB key).
- Audio description: Videos on this website do not have audio description.
- Organisation chart: The current version of visual organisation chart (corporate template) published is not accessible to people using a screen reader or users who rely on keyboard navigation. The Whoiswho is an accessible alternative for most of its content.
- Maps which are embedded may have some accessibility issues such as keyboard inaccessible content and functionality. These issues are mentioned in detail in the project’s accessibility statement.