Glossary
BFSG (German Accessibility Strengthening Act)
The German law obliging certain consumer products and services to be accessible. In force since 28 June 2025.
What it is about
The German Accessibility Strengthening Act transposes a European directive into German law. It obliges providers of certain products and services to make them accessible, and has been in force since 28 June 2025.
Among the areas covered is e-commerce, meaning websites through which consumers can enter into contracts. For micro-enterprises the act provides an exemption tied to headcount and turnover.
What stands behind it technically
The concrete yardstick is WCAG at level AA. That sounds abstract but means checkable things: sufficient contrast, full keyboard operation, alternative texts that say something, a heading hierarchy without jumps, forms with associated labels and error messages people can understand.
A large part of that arises in the sitepackage and can be laid down correctly once. The rest is created afresh every day in editorial work, and it only holds when the content elements are built so that the obvious route is also the accessible one.
What we take on and what we do not
We implement the technical requirements, audit what exists with tools and by hand, train the editorial team, and write an accessibility statement that names known limitations rather than claiming completeness.
What we do not take on is the legal reading of whether and from when the act applies to a particular business. That belongs in expert hands. Our part is set out under TYPO3 accessibility.