Accessibility

Our standard

The site is built to conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA. It also follows the German Barrierefreie-Informationstechnik-Verordnung (BITV 2.0) and EN 301 549 where they apply to a private club website.

What that means in practice

• Every page works with a keyboard alone: menus, the search dialog, the photo viewer and the map all open, close and navigate without a mouse. A visible 3-pixel focus ring shows where you are.
• Text meets the 4.5:1 contrast ratio in both the light and the dark theme, and the theme follows the light or dark setting of your device.
• Tap targets are at least 44 by 44 pixels; primary buttons are 48 pixels.
• Pages are readable at 400 percent zoom and on a 320-pixel-wide screen without sideways scrolling.
• Photographs carry text descriptions; decorative images are hidden from screen readers.
• Motion is reduced when your device asks for it, including the rotating honors in the Heritage menu and the photo viewer.
• Headings, landmarks, tables and forms are labeled so screen readers can move through a page quickly.
• You can also follow the schedule and the news outside the website: subscribe to our calendar in your phone’s calendar app, or to our news feed in a feed reader.

How we check

Each time we update the website, automatic accessibility tests (axe-core) check every page in both themes at phone width, including whether anything runs off the side of the screen and whether buttons are big enough to tap, and a Lighthouse accessibility test checks the key pages. If a page fails, the update isn’t published. The style guide documents the colors, type scale and components the checks rely on.

Known limitations

• The interactive map can be hard to use with a screen reader. Every venue’s address is also written out, with a directions link.
• The machine translation offered through Google Translate may produce imperfect German; the English text is the reference version.
• Content embedded from YouTube is subject to that service's own accessibility.
• Photographs in the galleries are described briefly; detailed descriptions are added when a photographer supplies them.

Tell us about a problem

If any part of the site is hard to use, tell us through the contact form or email [email protected]. Say which page it was and what happened. Our webmaster is a volunteer who aims to reply within a week and to fix confirmed problems in the next update of the site.

We reviewed this statement on 18 October 2026 and update it whenever we change the website.