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Accessibility statement

ACCESSIBILITY STATEMENT

The Belgian Foreign Trade Agency is committed to making this website accessible, in accordance with the law of 19 July 2018 regarding the  European Directive (EU) 2016/2102 on the accessibility of websites and mobile applications of public authorities.

This accessibility statement concerns the following website: 

https://www.belgianeconomicmission.be

COMPLIANCE STATUS

This website is partially compliant, due to the non-conformities and exemptions listed below.

PREPARATION OF THE STATEMENT

An external accessibility audit has been performed. This audit was a simplified analysis of which you can find the report in this link.

NON-ACCESSIBLE CONTENT

The audit has taken place by BOSA and below errors have been identified.

Contrast Errors 1.4.3: The audit refers to two types of contrast errors.
The first error concerns the homepage with its revolving background of images which generates several similar errors.
The "weather, flag, city name and local time"- icons on the website are fed by accuweather.com

The second error concerns pages, which at the moment of audit, reflected this error. However the errors do no longer exist as the content has changed since the audit has taken place.

Parsing Error & “Name, Role, Value” Error: These errors will be improved with the guidance of BOSA as these concern assistive technologies.

SUGGESTED ALTERNATIVES

At the moment, no alternatives are suggested, however this is subject to change in the future.

CONTACT DETAILS

Should you have enquiries, please contact Rose Donck via email: rose.donck@abh-ace.be. Should you have any complaints on the accessibility of this website, please contact legal@abh-ace.be via email. If aforementioned persons do not respond to your enquiry you are invited to contact the following service for complaints: Filing a complaint | Federaalombudsman.be

PLAN FOR IMPROVEMENT

The Belgian Foreign Trade will work on the aforementioned errors with BOSA in order to improve the accessibility of the website www.belgianeconomicmission.be

This statement has been published on 18/03/2024.

The last revision of the statement took place on 06/08/2025.