Declaration of accessibility
Hamburg Messe und Congress GmbH strives to make its website accessible in accordance with the Accessibility Strengthening Act (BFSG) and the Regulation on the Accessibility Strengthening Act (BFSGV). This statement applies to www.hamburg-messe.com.
Status of compatibility with the requirements
This website is partially compliant with the BFSG and the BFSGV due to the following incompatibilities or exceptions.
Our products and services can be found, accessed and used by people with disabilities in the usual way, without particular difficulty and generally without outside help.
Description of the service
Descriptions and explanations necessary to understand the execution of the service
Non-accessible content
The following content is not accessible because it is not compatible with the underlying harmonized standard EN 301 549:
- There are images without captions on one page. It is difficult to navigate to the images with screen readers. | WCAG: 1.1.1
- There are links without link text on several pages. | WCAG: 4.1.2
- There is a list element on a page that is not part of a list. | WCAG: 1.3.1
- On several pages, the contrast between text and background is too low. | WCAG: 1.4.3
- On single pages there are 'iframe' elements without labelling. Navigation with screen readers to the iframes is difficult. | WCAG: 4.1.2
- On several pages, the language stored in HTML does not match the page language. | WCAG: 3.1.1
- There is a form field on a page without labelling. It is difficult to navigate to the form field with screen readers. | WCAG: 4.1.2
- On single pages there are headings that have no caption or contain the aria-hidden attribute and are therefore not accessible to screen readers. | WCAG: 1.3.1
- There are invalid aria attribute values on single pages. These are not recognized by screen readers and are therefore not output correctly. | WCAG: 4.1.2
- On a page, a parent element lacks matching child elements. This can confuse screen reader users, as content is expected but none is there. | WCAG: 1.3.1
- On single pages, links are indistinguishable from the surrounding text. | WCAG: 1.4.1
This declaration was created on 10.07.2025. The declaration was prepared using the Eye-Able® technology of Web Inclusion GmbH. Eye-Able Report ® – a product of Web Inclusion GmbH – has gone through all machine-verifiable test steps.
Feedback and contact details
You can report any difficulties accessing the content of the website to us:
Hamburg Messe und Congress GmbH
Messeplatz 1
20357 Hamburg
Hamburg
accessibility(at)hamburg-messe(dot)com
Market surveillance
The contact details of the market surveillance body responsible for us are:
Disclaimer
The automatic check of the web content took place on: 10.07.2025. The Google Chrome browser version 136.0.7103.92 was used for the web content. We guarantee the accuracy of the information provided for the tested application version under the specified browser and operating system parameters, as stated before. If different versions, browsers or environments are used, a different display is possible, which differ from the results given here. For a complete check, manual tests by the website operator are also recommended.