Accessibility Statement
Last reviewed: 2026-08-07. Verscala is itself in the business of digital accessibility, so we hold this site to the same disclosure standard we recommend to the agencies and sites we write about — see our guide on what an accessibility statement must contain under Anlage 3 BFSG for the structure this page follows.
Scope of this statement
This statement covers everything served from this domain: the static agency catalog, the free accessibility scanner, and the paid "Featured" placements that accessibility agencies can purchase via Stripe checkout. It does not cover the external agency and vendor websites the catalog links to — we don't operate those.
Legal basis
The EU-wide legal basis is the European Accessibility Act, Directive (EU) 2019/882. Its German transposition, the Barrierefreiheitsstärkungsgesetz (BFSG), is the most concretely specified national model available — Anlage 3 zu § 14 BFSG lists the exact contents a statement must have, and that list is what structures this page. We use it as a template rather than a confirmed jurisdiction: our operating entity (see Imprint) is registered in California, USA — not in an EU/EEA member state. Whether, and under which national transposition, a non-EU-established provider serving EU users is directly governed is a genuinely unsettled question we have not resolved with legal counsel. We keep using the BFSG structure as the clearest available template, not as a claim about which law actually applies to us.
One nuance worth stating honestly, because it's the reason this page exists: whether Verscala is itself an "e-commerce service" under the Act is not a settled question for every part of the site. Both Art. 3(30) EAA and § 2 Nr. 26 BFSG define an e-commerce service as one provided "with a view to concluding a consumer contract" — and "consumer" (Art. 3(22) EAA / § 13 BGB) means a natural person acting outside their trade, business, or profession. Our paid Featured placements are sold to accessibility agencies acting in their trade, which reads as business-to-business, not a consumer contract — so that revenue stream alone may not trigger the e-commerce-service definition on its own strict terms. Our free public scan tool is a closer fit: it's offered electronically, at the individual request of any visitor, with no trade purpose required of the person requesting it. Rather than resolve that boundary for our own benefit, we publish this statement regardless of which reading is correct.
Conformity status
Self-assessed, partially conformant. This status comes from automated testing we run on our own site, not from an external audit — Anlage 3 accepts self-assessment as one of two valid methods, alongside third-party testing, and we name which one this is.
- Permanent self-scan. Every build runs our own scanner tooling (axe-core) against a fixed sample of pages covering every page template on the site, including this one (
npm run audit-a11y), as a build gate — a page template that fails blocks release. The rule set covers WCAG 2.0/2.1 A and AA plus the WCAG 2.2 Level AA rule automation can check (target-size, explicitly enabled — axe-core ships it switched off by default), alongside axe-core's best-practice rules. As of this statement's last review date, that gate ran clean: 0 violations across all 26 sampled pages. - Standard coverage. Of the 50 checkable success criteria in EN 301 549 chapter 9 (Web), our own tooling automates 31 (62%) — see what our scanner checks and what it can't for the full breakdown. As that page states about the same number when we show it for other sites: automated coverage means a check exists, not that conformance is proven. The remaining criteria need a human reviewer, and no third-party audit of this site has been performed yet — that is the concrete gap behind "partially", not a hedge.
Provider identification
Anlage 3 requires the provider's identity and contact details here (the same information Art. 246 EGBGB requires for distance contracts). Full details — legal entity, address, and the person authorised to represent it — are published on our Imprint page and not duplicated here, so there's exactly one place these facts can drift out of date.
Enforcement body
Our operating entity is registered in the United States (California), not in an EU/EEA member state — which market-surveillance authority, if any, has jurisdiction over a non-EU-established provider serving EU users is not something we've resolved with legal counsel. For illustration, the authority named in the guides on this site for the German market is the Marktüberwachungsstelle der Länder für die Barrierefreiheit von Produkten und Dienstleistungen (MLBF), Magdeburg. That's a factual reference, not a claim that MLBF is our enforcement body.
Feedback
If any part of this site is difficult to use with assistive technology, or you believe this statement is inaccurate or incomplete, tell us via our Contact page — the same channel we use for every other correction on this site.