Accessibility

1. Scope and status

This statement applies to the website panoptes.me. It is made voluntarily. No contract is concluded and no payment is taken on this site; the audit-request form starts a conversation, it does not complete a purchase. It is therefore not, to our understanding, an electronic commerce service within the meaning of the Barrierefreiheitsstärkungsgesetz (BFSG), and the operator is in any case a microenterprise. The formal accessibility statement required by § 12b BGG applies to public bodies, which the operator is not. We publish this because a company selling security review should be willing to state what its own site does and does not do.

2. How accessible this site is

We aim for the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at level AA. This site is partially conformant: it passes the automated checks we run, but it has not been audited end to end against every WCAG success criterion, and it has not been tested with assistive technology. “Partially conformant” means some parts may not fully conform.

3. What has been tested, and how

Self-assessment. The home page, this page, the legal notice and the privacy policy were tested with axe-core 4.13 against the WCAG 2.0 and 2.1 rule sets at levels A and AA, in a Chromium browser, on a production build. The audit-request dialog was tested separately in its open state, including keyboard behaviour. Layout was checked at a 375 px viewport width and at desktop width. One issue found during that test, the dialog not moving focus to itself when opened, was fixed. The current result is no remaining automated violations.

4. Known limitations

We would rather name these than imply a level of conformance we have not verified:

• Dialog focus handling. The audit-request dialog now takes focus when it opens and closes on Escape, but focus is not confined to it: pressing Tab enough times moves through the page behind it. Focus is also not returned to the button that opened it when it closes.
• No assistive-technology testing. The site has not been tested with screen readers, voice control or switch access. Automated tools reliably detect only a minority of accessibility barriers.
• Motion. Sections fade and lift into view as you scroll, and the hero carries a slow ambient glow. If your system requests reduced motion, animations and transitions are reduced to near-zero duration and sections are shown immediately without the reveal. This is implemented, but it has not been verified against every individual element. Content also stays visible if scripting is unavailable.
• Engagements carousel. The horizontally scrolling engagement cards can be operated with the previous and next buttons and by scrolling, but this pattern has not been verified against the full set of WCAG criteria for carousels.
• No formal audit. There has been no external accessibility audit and no user testing with disabled people.

5. Feedback

If you hit a barrier on this site, or need something on it in a different format, tell us and we will fix it or send you the content another way. Write to [email protected]. We aim to reply within five working days.

6. Enforcement

As set out in section 1, we do not consider this site to fall under the BFSG, and the § 12b BGG conciliation procedure is open only in respect of public bodies. If you are not satisfied with our response, we would still like to hear about it at the address above so we can put it right.

7. Date of this statement

Prepared on 20 August 2026 on the basis of the self-assessment described in section 3. It will be revised when the site changes materially.