Accessibility

Our commitment

Atelier Rodighiero.Design is the part of Rodighiero.Design devoted to villas on the lakes. The studio works according to the Design for All approach: a project succeeds when it can be used, understood and enjoyed by as many people as possible, in all the diversity of their abilities, ages and circumstances.

We apply the same principle to this website. Accessibility was a requirement from the first draft, not an afterthought.

Compliance status

The website is designed to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 (opens in a new tab) at level AA, the criteria referenced by the European standard EN 301 549.

Status

Partially compliant

Reason

Manual testing with screen readers is in progress; known limitations are described below.

Reference

WCAG 2.2, level AA

We publish this statement voluntarily, following the structure of the AgID template used by Italian public administrations.

Known limitations

• Languages. The website is written by the atelier in Italian, English, German and Russian; if they differ, the Italian text prevails. Changing language opens the corresponding page, without machine translation services.
• Private client archive. From the Client Login page you move to the studio’s cloud (cloud.rodighiero.design), where you enter your username and password. It is a service separate from this website, based on the Nextcloud software: its accessibility depends on that software and is not covered by this statement.
• External sites. Links to Rodighiero.Design and other sites lead to content not covered by this statement.

How the website is designed

• An orderly heading structure and declared page regions, so that screen reader users can find their way around.
• Text contrast of at least 4.5:1, checked in light and dark themes; text over photographs sits on a veil calculated to stay legible even over bright skies.
• Full keyboard navigation, with a focus indicator that is always visible and a link to skip to the content.
• Free zoom up to 400% without loss of content; browser zoom is never blocked.
• Hand-written alternative text for every photograph of the villas, describing what can be seen.
• Respect for device settings: reduced motion and dark theme are applied automatically.
• Predictable links: pages of the site open in the same tab; external sites open in a new tab, marked by an arrow ↗ and announced by screen readers. If you prefer, you can open everything in the same tab from the preferences.
• The opening slideshows, with photographs and videos, always have a pause button; the videos are silent and decorative. Everything stops with “Stop animations” or with your device’s reduced-motion setting.
• On the villa pages every photograph opens enlarged in a foreground window: the ← → arrow keys or the two buttons at the sides move to the previous or next image, Home and End to the first and last, Esc closes and returns to the image you started from; on a phone you swipe. Every image has its own description for screen readers; with “Image descriptions” the description is also written on the image.
• The site has no forms: you write to the atelier from your email program, with a ready-made message.
• No automatic correction widget overlaid on the page: the site is built accessible from the start.

Accessibility preferences

The “Accessibility” control in the menu opens a panel with a few adjustments: larger text, text spacing, a highly legible typeface, high contrast, highlighted links, image descriptions, stopping animations, and opening external websites in the same tab. Your choices are saved on this device and can be undone with “Reset”.

From the same panel, “Read aloud” has your device’s synthetic voice read the page one block at a time: headings, paragraphs, list items and images with their descriptions. A bar at the bottom lets you stop and resume reading and move by a paragraph or a section. The command appears only if your device has a voice in the page language; voice quality depends on the operating system.

The same adjustments, turned on in the accessibility settings of your operating system or browser, apply to every website.

Open preferences

Using the website with a keyboard

Every part of the website can be reached and used without a mouse. The commands are the usual ones on the web:

• Tab and Shift + Tab to move forwards and backwards between links and buttons, in the order they appear; the first is “Skip to content”, which skips the header.
• Enter to open a link, Enter or Space to press a button.
• The up and down arrows ↑ ↓, Space and the page keys to scroll the page.
• Esc to close the menu, the Accessibility panel, the language selector, the image window and the reading bar.

Some browsers, especially on Mac, at first use Tab to reach only buttons and fields and skip links. It is a browser setting, which you change once for every website:

• Safari on Mac: in Safari, Settings, Advanced, turn on “Press Tab to highlight each item on a webpage”. Alternatively, Option + Tab reaches every item.
• Chrome: in Settings, under Appearance, the option that makes Tab highlight links too; it is usually already on.
• Firefox on Mac: it follows the system setting; in System Settings, Keyboard, turn on “Keyboard navigation”.
• Edge and Firefox on Windows: work as they are, with no settings to change.

Text can be enlarged in every browser with Cmd or Ctrl and +; the website reflows without losing content up to 400%.

How we tested

• Automated testing with axe-core (WCAG 2.2 AA and best practices) of all 17 pages, on desktop and phone screens, in light and dark themes, with the menu, the Accessibility panel, the language selector and the image window open and with all preferences on: 330 checks, no errors found.
• Measurement of text contrast over the opening photographs and videos, at the brightest point of each image, on desktop and phone: all text above 4.5:1.
• Testing of the pages from 320 to 1280 pixels wide, with larger text, spacing, the highly legible font and image descriptions on: no horizontal scrolling, descriptions present on all images.
• Keyboard navigation and text zoom tests.
• Still to be completed: tests with the VoiceOver and NVDA screen readers and tests with people with disabilities.

Statement prepared on 25 October 2026, updated on 12 November 2026.