The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) Party’s website has accessibility issues that particularly affect users with visual, cognitive, and motor impairments.

The most severe problems found in the spot checks affect users with cognitive impairments, or users who are not tech-savvy. There is content that continuously changes without any chance for the user to pause, which may be highly difficult to cope with for any user, but especially these groups.

The absence of clear error messages, reliance on colour alone for cues, and inconsistent error handling in forms makes it difficult for many users to succeed in filling in forms.

Users who are blind and rely on assistive technology risk being completely or partly excluded from content because of a lack of alternative descriptions on images.

There is insufficient contrast in crucial areas such as the main menu, headers, buttons, and where text is placed on top of visually distracting images. These issues make it difficult or impossible for users with visual impairments to use the website.

It is possible to navigate the website using a keyboard, but the focus elements have been modified, making them nearly invisible and making navigation nearly impossible for motor-impaired users of assistive technology.

Hard-of-hearing users are supported by captioned videos, which is positive.

The mobile interface has the same issues as in desktop.

The documents are partly accessible.

ALDE Party has created a custom focus that is incredibly hard to see. Sometimes it is just a small colour change that is hardly noticeable and sometimes the focus is actively removed and not visible at all.

The menu alternative goes from white to light blue when it has focus.