EN 301 549 Accessibility requirements for ICT products and services – Annex A (informative) Relationship between the present document and the essential requirements of Directive 2016/2102

The present document has been prepared under the Commission's standardisation request C(2017)2585 final [i.27] to provide one voluntary means of conforming to the essential requirements of Directive 2016/2102 on the accessibility of the websites and mobile applications of public sector bodies [i.28].

Once the present document is cited in the Official Journal of the European Union under that Directive, conformance with the normative clauses of the present document given in Tables A.1 and A.2 confers, within the limits of the scope of the present document, a presumption of conformity with the corresponding essential requirements of that Directive and associated EFTA regulations.

The requirements listed in Table A.1 apply to:

• web pages (as defined in clause 3.1);
• documents that are web pages;
• documents that are embedded in web pages and that are used in the rendering or that are intended to be rendered together with the web page in which they are embedded;
• documents, including forms, that are downloadable from web pages but are neither embedded nor rendered together with the web page from which they are provided;
• software that is a web page; or
• software that is embedded in web pages and that is used in the rendering or that is intended to be rendered together with the web page in which it is embedded.

The requirements listed in Table A.2 apply to mobile applications that provide a user interface, including content (such as documents and forms) that is in the software or provided by the software.

NOTE 1: According to Directive 2016/2102 [i.28]: "Content of websites and mobile applications includes textual as well as non-textual information, downloadable documents and forms, and two-way interaction such as the processing of digital forms and the completion of authentication, identification and payment processes".

NOTE 2: Annex A is a required element in all Harmonised standards. Its purpose is to explain how the essential requirements of a Directive can be met. Tables A.1 and A.2 are therefore restricted to those elements that relate to the essential requirements of Directive 2016/2102 [i.28].

NOTE 3: Annex A describes how the standard relates to the European Web Accessibility Directive. Apart from the minimum requirements in clauses 9, 10 and 11, some of the requirements in clauses 5, 6, 7 and 12 can also be relevant to fulfill the Directive in specific situations. The tables in Annex A show which requirements are relevant.

NOTE 4: Because the Web Accessibility Directive (EU) 2016/2102 "does not apply to live time-based media", the following requirements are not listed in Tables A.1 and A.2. They are, however, necessary requirements for making live streaming media accessible:

Key to Tables A.1 and A.2 columns:

Requirement:

No A unique identifier for one row of the table which may be used to identify a requirement.

Essential requirements of Directive

Identification of article(s) defining the requirement in the Directive.

Clause(s) of the present document

Identification of clause(s) defining the requirement in the present document unless another document is referenced explicitly.

Requirement Conditionality:

U/C "U" indicates that conformance with the clause is unconditionally required.
"C" indicates that conformance with the clause is required only if the specified condition is met.

Condition For conditional requirements this column describes the condition that has to be met for conformance with the clause to be a requirement.

Assessment:

Indicates the clause of the present document that contains the relevant assessment method.

Presumption of conformity stays valid only as long as a reference to the present document is maintained in the list published in the Official Journal of the European Union. Users of the present document should consult frequently the latest list published in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Other Union legislation may be applicable to the product(s) falling within the scope of the present document.

Table A.1: Web Content - relationship between the present document and
the essential requirements of Directive 2016/2102/EU

Yes

Table A.2: Mobile Applications - relationship between the present document and
the essential requirements of Directive 2016/2102/EU