Web Accessibility Statement

Compliance Status

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2
level AA.

This accessibility statement applies to www.irishbeef.nl.

This website is built on the same core platform and templates as irishbeef.co.uk (the primary
Irish Beef website). Accessibility assurance and continuous automated testing are focused on
irishbeef.co.uk. Updates and fixes made to the shared templates are then applied to this
website where technically possible.

Because www.irishbeef.nl may contain different or additional content (for example localized text,
images, PDFs, or third-party embeds), there may be accessibility issues on this website that
have not been individually audited, even though the underlying templates are shared.
We work with our website developers to regularly review and improve the accessibility of our
digital content. Through ongoing testing and auditing, we may identify areas, modules, or
templates requiring further improvement.

Preparation for this Accessibility Statement

This statement was prepared on December 1, 2025.

A formal quality assurance process was carried out by Kooba Internet Solutions Ltd., through
the Irish Beef website’s design process and with a combination of automated and manual
accessibility audits, and the edits that derived from them, for the development process. A final
verification audit of the core templates was completed on January 29, 2024.

A continuous quality assurance process is carried out monthly by Kooba Internet Solutions Ltd.
for irishbeef.co.uk, as the primary reference website.

Ax Monitor tool by Deque is used to identify automated issues across up to 500 pages on
irishbeef.co.uk. Once automated issues are resolved, items flagged as “needs review” are
manually verified by the Kooba team, followed by manual accessibility testing. At the time of this
statement the latest Ax Monitor scan returned a score of 68.39%.

Non-Accessible Content

Some content on the Irish Beef website does not fully comply with the WCAG 2.2 guidelines.
For example:

• Colour: Ensures the contrast between foreground and background colors meets WCAG
  2 AA minimum contrast ratio thresholds. Ensure links are distinguished from surrounding
  text in a way that does not rely on color. Planned remediation in 2026.
• Name, Role, Value: Ensures aria-hidden elements are not focusable nor contain
  focusable elements. Ensures links have discernible text. Planned remediation in 2026.
• ARIA: Ensures ARIA attributes are not prohibited for an element’s role. Planned
  remediation in 2026.
• Sensory and Visual Cues: Ensure touch target have sufficient size and space. Planned
  remediation in 2026.

Limitations

PDFs: Bord Bia has a large volume of PDFs hosted on its website. PDFs are less
accessible than HTML pages for people using assistive technologies. However, Bord Bia
has limited resources and finances to use in retrospectively tagging all of the PDFs. For this
reason, Bord Bia is committed to:

• Appropriately tagging any new PDFs published on the website.
• Tagging legacy documents over time, with a more urgent focus on documents
  that receive a large volume of traffic. This work will be ongoing.
• Images: Not all images on bordbia.ie have photo (or meta-) descriptions. Bord Bia has
  accrued an extensive catalog of images and it would be a disproportionate burden
  based on Bord Bia’s limited resources and finances to properly tag all of the images
  immediately. However, Bord Bia is committed to:
  • Creating alt tags on each newly uploaded image.
  • Working through our library of previously uploaded imagery to tag each image.
• Videos: Bord Bia hosts a large volume of videos on its website. Captioning is not present for
  many of these videos. Retrospectively captioning videos would take a large amount of financial
  and staff resources and would not be feasible based on Bord Bia’s budget and staff numbers.

 

For this reason, Bord Bia is committed to:

• Appropriately captioning any new videos uploaded to the website.
• Tagging legacy documents over time, with a more urgent focus on videos that receive a
  large volume of traffic. This work will be ongoing.

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