Accessibility Statement
Seidensticker is committed to making its website accessible in accordance with the North Rhine-Westphalia Equal Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities Act (BGG NRW) and the Regulation for the Implementation of the Act (BITV NRW), as well as in line with the BFSG and BFSGV. This accessibility statement applies to the domain: https://www.seidensticker.com/de/de/.
Status of Compliance with the Requirements
This website is partially compliant with the BGG NRW and BITV NRW, as well as the BFSG and BFSGV, due to the following non-compliances or exceptions.
Our products and services are generally discoverable, accessible, and usable by persons with disabilities in the usual manner, without undue difficulty and, in principle, without outside assistance.
Description of the Service
We offer the sale of clothing (shirts, blouses, etc.) on our website.
Descriptions and Explanations Necessary for Understanding the Service
Non-Accessible Content
The following content is not accessible because it does not comply with the underlying harmonized standard EN 301 549:
- All pages contain links without link text. | WCAG: 4.1.2
- The contrast between text and background is too low on all pages. | WCAG: 1.4.3
- Some pages contain iframe elements without labels, making navigation via screen readers difficult. | WCAG: 4.1.2
- Some pages contain form fields without labels, complicating navigation with screen readers. | WCAG: 4.1.2
- All pages have buttons without labels, hindering screen reader navigation. | WCAG: 4.1.2
- Some pages contain headings that either have no labels or are marked with the aria-hidden attribute, making them inaccessible to screen readers. | WCAG: 1.3.1
- Multiple pages contain very small, hard-to-read paragraphs with a line height under 1.5. | WCAG: 1.4.8
- On all pages, the meta viewport prevents zooming, which impairs readability for visually impaired users. | WCAG: 1.4.4
- Invalid ARIA attribute values exist on all pages; these are not recognized by screen readers and are therefore not rendered correctly. | WCAG: 4.1.2
- On one page, there are tables that are not correctly structured; not all table data is associated with headers, making it unclear which data corresponds to which header. | WCAG: 1.3.1
- Some pages contain elements with the aria-hidden attribute that are still focusable, making them accessible to assistive technologies even though they should be hidden. | WCAG: 4.1.2
- Some scrollable elements cannot be navigated using the keyboard, limiting accessibility for assistive technology users. | WCAG: 2.1.1
- All pages have interactive elements whose accessible name is not part of their label, complicating voice command usage. | WCAG: 2.5.3
- On several pages, the contrast between text and background is insufficient, hindering readability. | WCAG: 1.4.6
- Many pages contain ARIA buttons, links, or menu items without labels, complicating navigation for screen reader users. | WCAG: 4.1.2
- On one page, elements have duplicate ARIA IDs, making screen reader navigation difficult. | WCAG: 4.1.2
This statement was created on 30 June 2025. It was prepared using Eye-Able® technology by Web Inclusion GmbH. The Eye-Able Report® – a product of Web Inclusion GmbH – has undergone all machine-checkable audit steps.
Feedback and Contact Information
Do you have a comment or suggestion regarding barriers on this website? Please get in touch with us. We will explain which barriers exist, which exceptions we have made, and respond to your inquiry as quickly as possible, but no later than within the legally mandated period of one month. Thank you for your feedback. You can contact us at:
Katharina Harig
Am Stadtholz 39
33609 Bielefeld
Bielefeld, Germany
Email: katharina.harig@seidensticker.de
Phone: +49 521 306 289
Conciliation Body
If no satisfactory solution is found following your request regarding the accessibility of our website, you may contact a conciliation body. Its purpose is to resolve conflicts between individuals with disabilities and public entities of the federal government. It is not about determining winners or losers, but rather finding a joint, out-of-court resolution. The conciliation procedure is free of charge and does not require legal counsel. You can contact the conciliation body at:
Commissioner of the State Government for People with Disabilities and for Patients in North Rhine-Westphalia
Fürstenwall 25
40219 Düsseldorf
Email: kontakt@lbbp.nrw.de
Website: https://www.lbbp.nrw.de/ombudsstelle
Market Surveillance Authority
Contact details of the market surveillance authority responsible for us:
MLBF (in development)
c/o Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Health and Equality of Saxony-Anhalt
P.O. Box 39 11 55
39135 Magdeburg
Email: MLBF@ms.sachsen-anhalt.de
Phone: +49 391 567 6970
Disclaimer
The automated audit of web content was conducted on: 30 June 2025. The audit used Google Chrome version 136.0.7103.92. We guarantee the accuracy of the information provided for the tested application version under the specified browser and operating system conditions. Using different versions or environments may result in a different representation and differing outcomes from those described here. For a complete audit, we recommend that the website operator also conducts manual testing.