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From: Kristoffer Baumgarten
Date: Feb 28, 2023 1:28AM

Hello!
I’m a student working for a company called Boozt. We’re trying to figuring out how to implement accessibility in best manners.
I have I tried to contact WCAG and was sendt to webaim. But I have no clue how to find my way around this side. So I hope you can help me or answer my questions :)

My questions regarding some of the rules from an e-commerce perceptive.

if when the Accessibility act comes into force a larger e-commerce business has not complied with the requirements, would you be able to give me a indication of potential penalties that such a business could incur?

In rule 1.1.1 it is mentioned that images which showcase some information, should be able to describe that information. Does this mean that, an e-commerce business will be required to have a description of an image for every product that has an image?

If the answer to question 2 is yes, should the image:

be marked as decorative and have a well explained description of the product below

be marked as non-decorative with an accessibility label of “image of brand + product name” and a more well explained description further down the page

be marked as non-decorative and have its own unique description?

If the answer to question 2 is yes, who has the responsibility to make sure that the description is given, the brand/merchant or the e-commerce business selling the brand/merchant’s product?

Apple has a built-in feature “Zoom” so that a user can double-tap with three fingers to zoom in on a part of the screen. Is “zoom” considered as an acceptable solution for rule 1.4.3 where scaling of 4.5:1 is required on example text?

Does icons/symbols by law also need to be scalable? Example we have a basket symbol on our buy button with text says: “buy”. Should both the text and the button scalable?



Best Regard

Kristoffer