Web Accessibility Statement
Bord Bia is committed to making its websites accessible, in accordance with European Union Regulations 2020 (Accessibility of Websites and Mobile Applications of Public Sector Bodies) and The European Accessibility Act 2025 (Directive (EU) 2019/882)
We aim to ensure that our online content is accessible to all users, including people with disabilities. This accessibility statement applies to content published on bordbiabloom.com
Compliance Status
This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 level AA.
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 27 June 2023 and last reviewed on 27 June 2025.
A formal quality assurance process was carried out by Kooba Internet Solutions Ltd., through the Bord Bia Bloom 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 was completed on 20 June 2023.
A continuous quality assurance process is carried out monthly by Kooba Internet Solutions Ltd.. Axe Monitor tool by Deque is used to identify automated issues across up to 500 pages on bordbiabloom.com. 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 Axe Monitor scan returned a score of 94.79%.
Non-Accessible Content
Some content on the Bord Bia Bloom website does not fully comply with the WCAG
2.1 guidelines. For example:
● ARIA: Ensures ARIA attributes are not prohibited for an element’s role. Ensures elements with ARIA roles have all required ARIA attributes. Ensures elements with an ARIA role that require parent roles are contained by them. Ensures all elements with a role attribute use a valid value. Planned remediation in 2025.
● Colour: Ensures the contrast between foreground and background colours meets WCAG 2 AA minimum contrast ratio thresholds. Planned remediation in 2025.
● Forms: Ensures select element has an accessible name. Planned remediation in 2025.
● Keyboard: Ensure elements that have scrollable content are accessible by keyboard. Planned remediation in 2025.
● Name, role, value: Ensures links have discernible text. Planned remediation in 2025.
● Structure: Ensures that lists are structured correctly. Planned remediation in 2025.
● Text Alternatives: Ensures <iframe> and <frame> elements have an accessible name. Ensures <img> elements have alternate text or a role of none or presentation. Planned remediation in 2025.
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 tag 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 catalogue 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.
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○ 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.
Feedback and Contact Information
We are committed to improving accessibility and welcome feedback on any accessibility barriers you encounter on the Bord Bia Bloom website.
If you experience difficulty accessing any part of the site or need information in an alternative format, please contact us via the form on this page.
We will consider your request and get back to you as soon as possible.
Formal Complaints
In the event of an unsatisfactory response to any notification or request, the requestor may make a complaint in writing to the Ombudsman for consideration under the Disability Act.