Accessibility statement

This statement applies to the website enricogiubertoni.com. It is a self-assessment: no external body has verified it, and the page says so here so that readers can judge its weight.

Under Legge 9 gennaio 2004, n. 4 (Law No 4 of 9 January 2004), publishing an accessibility statement is mandatory for public administrations and for private companies with a turnover above EUR 500 million. The European Accessibility Act, Directive (EU) 2019/882, transposed in Italy by Decreto legislativo 27 maggio 2022, n. 82 (Legislative Decree No 82 of 27 May 2022) and applicable from 28 June 2025, exempts microenterprises providing services and in any case requires no published statement. Enrico Giubertoni is therefore under no obligation: this page exists because a site that asks for attention must also be readable by people who read it in a different way.

The technical reference is the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, level AA, in the version referred to by the European standard EN 301 549. The site is partially conformant: its structure and the content written for the site meet that level, while three categories of material produced by others fall outside it. They are listed below, because a statement is credible only when it declares its exceptions.

• Every page has a single main heading and a consistent heading hierarchy: an automated check blocks publication when this rule is not met.
• On every page, the link to skip to the main content is the first element a keyboard user reaches.
• Keyboard focus is always visible, and the reading order follows the order of the document.
• Images carry an alternative text that describes what they show; decorative images carry an empty one, so that screen readers skip them.
• The visual artefacts are built with real text and not as images, so they can be read and enlarged like the rest of the page.
• Filters and internal searches announce by voice how many entries remain, and they also work with JavaScript disabled, because all the content is already in the page.
• The site respects the preferences set in the operating system: reduced motion, increased contrast and forced colours.
• Colour contrasts are measured, not estimated: white text on midnight blue reaches a ratio of 13.83 to 1, and wherever the ratio fell below the threshold the colour was changed.

At the bottom of every page a panel offers four preferences: high contrast, larger text, wider spacing and reduced motion. They are stored in the visitor’s browser and apply only to that visitor, on that device.

The panel makes no claim of conformance and does not rewrite the page: it changes four style variables and nothing else. The distinction matters, and the reason is documented: commercial overlay tools that promise accessibility by placing a layer over a website were cited in more than 22 % of accessibility lawsuits filed in the United States in the first half of 2025, against the very sites that had installed them, and in April 2025 the Federal Trade Commission (FTC, the United States consumer protection authority) fined one of their providers for misleading claims. A preferences panel is a service to the reader; an overlay that promises conformance makes a false claim.

• Embedded videos. Recordings of interviews and talks are published by third parties on their own channels: where subtitles do not exist, they cannot be added, because the file belongs to whoever published it. Every video is accompanied by a written title and description, so that its content can be understood without watching it.
• Third-party PDF documents. Conference proceedings, organisers’ programmes and association reports are linked as evidence of what the page states. The files belong to those who published them, are often scanned, and their accessibility depends on those who published them.
• The privacy page. Its text is supplied by iubenda in an embedded frame: the content belongs to iubenda and changes when the legislation changes. The layout of that frame is decided by iubenda.

Anyone who encounters a barrier may write to info@enricogiubertoni.com, indicating the page and the action they were unable to complete. A reply is given within thirty days, which is the maximum period set for it: in practice it arrives within one or two working days.

Automated checks run on every generated page at each publication. They are complemented by checks that a machine cannot perform: keyboard-only navigation, reading order, actual contrast of the dark sections, text enlarged up to twice its size without breaking the layout, and a reading of every page at three screen widths.

This statement bears the date of the checks on which it is based, and it is revised whenever the structure of the site changes.