{"id":16368,"date":"2024-09-16T11:35:15","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T09:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/?p=16368"},"modified":"2025-03-26T14:15:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T13:15:51","slug":"inaccessibility-of-slovenian-e-commerce-the-year-before-the-european-accessibility-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/?p=16368","title":{"rendered":"(In)Accessibility of Slovenian E-commerce the Year Before the European Accessibility Act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>Bogdan Cerovac<br \/><br \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>ABSTRACT<\/strong><br \/>The European Accessibility Act (EAA Directive (EU) 2019\/882)<br \/>aims to harmonize accessibility requirements, with a significant<br \/>focus on e-commerce services due to their socio-economic<br \/>impact. This study manually assessed 26 key EN 301 549<br \/>requirements, aligned with WCAG 2.1 success criteria at levels<br \/>A and AA, to provide more relevant results for future<br \/>accessibility trend comparisons and to advocate for necessary<br \/>awareness and education initiatives. We examined 20 major and<br \/>original, Slovenian e-commerce platforms expected to fall within<br \/>the EAA&#8217;s scope. None of the websites were fully accessible;<br \/>each failed at least 13 out of the 26 selected requirements, with<br \/>an average of 17.1 criteria unmet per website. Our findings<br \/>highlight the urgent need for improved accessibility to ensure<br \/>digital inclusivity in Slovenia and identify specific accessibility<br \/>and usability issues that must be addressed to achieve compliance<br \/>and bridge existing digital barriers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IS2024_-_DIGIN_paper_6-1.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of IS2024_-_DIGIN_paper_6-1.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-2d9bd6a2-75db-415c-868d-60d51b8ece7d\" href=\"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IS2024_-_DIGIN_paper_6-1.pdf\">IS2024_-_DIGIN_paper_6-1<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IS2024_-_DIGIN_paper_6-1.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-2d9bd6a2-75db-415c-868d-60d51b8ece7d\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":24966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-doi-digin-2024","category-papers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16368"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25072,"href":"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16368\/revisions\/25072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}