Accessibility statement

Our commitment

Rodighiero.Design for All designs products, spaces and services following the Design for All approach: a solution succeeds when as many people as possible can use it, understand it and feel at ease with it, across the diversity of their abilities, ages and circumstances.

We apply the same principle to our own website. Accessibility is a design requirement from the first draft, not a later correction: that is why we do not use overlay widgets that sit on top of the page to correct it.

Conformance status

The site is designed to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 (opens in a new tab) at Level AA, which include the criteria referenced by the European standard EN 301 549, and to go beyond them where possible.

Status

Partially conformant

Reason

Machine translation and the YouTube video player depend on external services. We describe them under known limitations.

Reference

WCAG 2.2, Level AA

The site also follows the principle introduced by the EN 301 549 V4.1.1 standard (2026, clause 9.7): it neither blocks nor overrides the accessibility settings chosen in the browser or on the device.

We publish this statement voluntarily, following the structure of the AgID template used by Italian public administrations.

Known limitations

• Machine translations. The Italian and English texts are written and edited by the studio. German, French and Spanish use Google’s machine translation via GTranslate: the translated text may contain inaccuracies, and the Italian text is authoritative. The service loads only when one of these languages is chosen.
• YouTube videos. In the articles, the YouTube player loads only when the button is pressed. From that moment, its controls depend on YouTube.
• External documents and websites. The articles cite sources from institutions and other authors, often as PDFs. We do not control this content, which is not always structured for screen readers.

How the site is designed

• A single main heading per page, headings in order and declared page regions, so that screen reader users can find their way.
• Text contrast of at least 4.5:1, and contrast of outlines and icons of at least 3:1, in both light and dark themes.
• Full keyboard navigation, with the focus indicator always visible and an initial link, ‘Skip to content’, that bypasses the header.
• Browser zoom never blocked; sizes proportional to the text and no horizontal scrolling at widths of 320 px and above, even with preferences switched on.
• Controls with a touch target of at least 44 × 44 px and visible feedback on hover and keyboard focus.
• Every content image has its own alternative text, describing what can be seen; with ‘Show image descriptions’ the description also appears in writing beneath the image. Decorative images are ignored by screen readers.
• Images and videos generated with artificial intelligence carry the label ‘AI’, and the alternative text says so; the list is on the Images and artificial intelligence page.
• Every video and animation has its own pause button and stops with ‘Stop animations’ or with reduced motion set on the device. The videos are silent.
• Every chart has a table with the same figures alongside it, and a text that conveys the same information to anyone who cannot see the chart.
• Predictable links: the site’s own pages open in the same tab; external sites open in a new tab, indicated by an arrow ↗ and announced by screen readers. Anyone who prefers can open everything in the same tab from the preferences.
• No forms to fill in: an email or phone link is all you need to write to us or call us. The brief on the Contact page is prepared by answering five questions, and you send it from your own email account.
• The site automatically respects the device’s settings: reduced motion, increased contrast and dark mode.

Accessibility preferences

The ‘Accessibility’ control in the menu opens a panel with several adjustments:

• ‘Larger text’, with two levels of enlargement;
• ‘Text spacing’, with more space between lines, words and letters;
• ‘High-legibility font’, with letters that are easier to tell apart;
• ‘High contrast’, with sharper text and borders and background images hidden;
• ‘Highlight links’, which underlines all links;
• ‘Show image descriptions’, which shows beneath each image what it depicts;
• ‘Stop animations’, which keeps images, text and transitions still;
• ‘Links in the same tab’, which opens external sites in the current tab too.

Your choices are saved only on your device, are never sent to us and can be undone with ‘Reset’. The ‘Show explanations’ switch writes what each control in the panel does beneath it. When you move the mouse over a control, or reach it with the keyboard, a short animation shows its effect before you choose it.

From the same panel, ‘Read aloud’ reads the page using your device’s synthetic voice, one block at a time. A bar at the bottom lets you pause and resume reading and move to the previous or next paragraph or section; the block being read is highlighted and the page scrolls to follow it. The control appears only if your device has an English voice. If you already use a screen reader, you will not need this function.

Similar adjustments, switched on in the accessibility settings of your operating system or browser, apply to all the websites that support them.

If you need help using these features, or one does not behave as described here, write to us: you will find how in the section Report a barrier.

Using the site with a keyboard

Every part of the site can be reached and used without a mouse. The keys are the usual ones on the web:

• Tab and Shift + Tab to move forwards and backwards between links and buttons, in the order in which they appear; the first is ‘Skip to content’.
• Enter to open a link, Enter or Space to press a button.
• Up and down arrows ↑ ↓, Space and the Page Up and Page Down keys to scroll the page.
• Esc to close the menu, the Accessibility panel, the language selection, the reading bar and enlarged images.

In some places the left and right arrows ← → do more: in the language selection they move from one language to another; in enlarged images, in the opening images of the case studies, in the photo strip and in the home page videos they go to the previous or next item; in enlarged images and in the photo strip Home and End go to the first and the last. On a phone the same step is made with a finger, with a clear horizontal swipe; vertical scrolling of the page stays free.

Browser settings

Some browsers, especially on Mac, initially reach only buttons and form fields with Tab and skip links. This is a browser setting, which you change once for all websites:

• Safari on Mac: in Safari, Settings, Advanced, turn on ‘Press Tab to highlight each item on a webpage’. Alternatively, Option + Tab reaches every element without changing any settings.
• Chrome: in Settings, under Appearance, the option that makes Tab highlight links as well as form fields; it is usually already on.
• Firefox on Mac: follows the system setting; in System Settings, Keyboard, turn on ‘Keyboard navigation’.
• Edge and Firefox on Windows: work as they are, with no settings needed.

Text can be enlarged in every browser with Cmd or Ctrl and +; the site reflows without losing content.

Using the site with your voice

The site can be used with your device’s voice control, which works across all apps and websites. Every control has a visible name, and the name passed to assistive technologies begins with the same words: you only need to say it.

• iPhone, iPad and Mac: Voice Control, in Settings, Accessibility. For example ‘Tap Accessibility’, ‘Show names’, ‘Show numbers’, ‘Scroll down’, ‘Go back’.
• Android: Voice Access. Say ‘Tap’ followed by the name of the control.
• Windows 11: Voice access. Say ‘Click’ followed by the name of the control.

The few controls that show only an icon, such as the cross that closes the Accessibility panel, can be reached by asking to show numbers and saying the control’s number. The full guides are those from Apple (opens in a new tab), Google (opens in a new tab) and Microsoft (opens in a new tab).

How we test the site

Before each publication we repeat the same tests on all the pages that have changed:

• automated testing with axe, against the WCAG 2.2 AA criteria, on desktop and mobile screens, in light and dark themes, with the Accessibility panel open and closed;
• testing each panel preference at widths from 320 to 1280 px: no horizontal scrolling, descriptions visible, controls legible;
• simulated screen reader reading: order of headings and regions, the name of every control, tab order;
• checking pause and stop for every video and animation, including with reduced motion;
• checking external links and contrast over images and videos, which automated tools do not measure.

Tests with VoiceOver, with voice control and with people who use these technologies every day are under way: we will publish the results on this page.

We update this statement whenever the site changes.

Last tested: 1 November 2026.