DIRECTIVE (EU) 2019/882 · IN FORCE SINCE 28 JUNE 2025 EU-HOSTED · GDPR-CLEAN
EAA Compliance

Rules · bypass

Failure reference

No way to skip repeated blocks.

Keyboard users tab through the full navigation on every single page unless a skip link or landmark structure lets them bypass it.

01

What fails — and who it fails

The failure, in plain language.

Fifty tab-stops of header before the content, on every page view. A skip link is one line; landmarks come almost free with semantic markup.

02

Detection — what the machine can and cannot judge

How the scanner finds it.

  • Pages are checked for a skip mechanism: a skip link, or main/nav landmarks that assistive tech can jump between.
  • What automation cannot judge: whether the skip link is visible on focus and lands somewhere useful — the journey extension records that.
03

The legal reading — factual, not fearful

Where this sits in enforcement.

A structural Level A criterion assessors test in the first minute: press Tab, watch what happens. Cheap to fix, prominent when absent.

04

The fix — by pattern

The pattern that clears it.

A visible-on-focus skip link, first in the DOM+ <a class="skip" href="#main">Zum Inhalt springen</a> … <main id="main">

Fix the template, not the page — one change typically clears every instance at once. The triage engine groups findings by template pattern for exactly that reason.

05

Verification — resolution is evidence, not a checkbox

Fixed means a scan said so.

On monitored domains, mark the finding fixed and the next scan verifies it: zero remaining instances converts the finding to Resolved, and both the claim and the confirmation land in the append-only ledger. Criteria that need human judgement close through sign-off in the coverage matrix — covered by the right method, never by assumption.

See where your templates stand.

A complimentary assessment renders up to 25 public pages in an EU-hosted browser and shows every instance of this failure — grouped, ranked, and honest about what still needs a human.