The website www.kalateave.ee belongs to the University of Tartu and is managed by the Fisheries Information Centre (Kalanduse teabekeskus). We want www.kalateave.ee to comply with the accessibility requirements set under § 32 of the Estonian Public Information Act (standard EN 301 549, which corresponds to WCAG 2.1 level AA).

Contact details for reporting accessibility problems are at the end of this statement.

Compliance status

This website is partially compliant with the accessibility requirements. The reasons are listed below.

What we have done

In November 2026 we audited the website and fixed the issues that affected the whole site:

• text, buttons and links now have sufficient colour contrast (the main colour is the dark blue of the Centre's logo);
• menus, buttons and the events calendar can be used with a keyboard, keyboard focus is always visible, and the mobile menu buttons have names in the language of the page;
• every page starts with a “Skip to content” link that bypasses the menu;
• the heading structure of the pages has been corrected and links within articles are underlined;
• pages work on screens 320 pixels wide and at 400% zoom without horizontal scrolling;
• if “reduce motion” is enabled on your device, smooth scrolling and animations are turned off;
• the parts of each page (header, menus, main content, sidebar and footer) are marked for screen readers;
• empty links have been removed from articles, redundant top-level headings in article text have been changed to subheadings, and tables in articles published since 2018 have header cells.

Non-accessible content

a) Non-compliance with the accessibility requirements

• Text alternatives for images. About 160 images in about 140 articles (published since 2018) have no text alternative (alt text), and some images use the file name as alt text. Screen reader users cannot find out what these images show. The charts in the “Kalatoodete müügitrendid Eestis” (fish product sales trends) reports have no text alternatives. The main figures of these reports are also available as tables and in the PDF file. Requirement not met: 9.1.1.1. We will add alt texts by 31 March 2027.
• Videos. 25 videos produced by the Centre (published after 23 September 2020) have no Estonian captions. Some of them have only automatic or English subtitles. Seven of them are recordings of live streams of information days and open fishing harbour days. Requirements not met: 9.1.2.2 and 9.1.2.5. We will add captions by 30 June 2027.
• PDF documents. The Centre's own documents are in the sections “Uurimused ja uuringud” (studies), “Väljaanded” (publications) and “Kalatoodete müügitrendid Eestis” (fish product sales trends). About 120 of them were published after 23 September 2018. We checked them in November 2026 and added a document title and language to all of them. The “Kalatoodete müügitrendid Eestis” reports are now fully accessible. Most of the other documents lack text alternatives for images and about one third lack structure tags, so a screen reader may not read them in the correct order. Requirements not met: 10.1.1.1 and 10.1.3.1. We will fix the 20 most-used documents (including the yearbooks “Eesti kalamajandus” and “Estonian Fishery”, the book “Eesti kalad” and the handbooks) by 31 December 2027. For the remaining documents, see section b. New documents will be published in an accessible format. If you need a document in an accessible format sooner (for example as a Word or text file), please write to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and we will send it to you.
• Older articles. Articles published before 2018 have only been checked automatically. They may contain images without alt text, tables without headers and vague link texts (such as “here”). Requirements not met: 9.1.1.1, 9.1.3.1 and 9.2.4.4. We fix them when an article is updated. If you need the content of an older article in an accessible format, please contact us.

b) Disproportionate burden

• Less-used PDF documents of the Centre. Fully fixing the remaining approximately 90 PDF documents published by the Centre after 23 September 2018 (study reports and publications, about 3,700 pages in total) — structure tags, reading order and text alternatives for images — would take an estimated 40–55 hours of work. According to the website statistics, the 20 most-used documents account for almost half of all downloads, while the others are downloaded rarely. We therefore consider fixing them a disproportionate burden for the Centre. All of these documents have a title and language set. If you need a document in an accessible format, please write to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and we will make it available to you (for example as an accessible PDF, Word or text file).

c) Content outside the scope of the legislation

• Documents (PDF, Word, etc.) published before 23 September 2018 that are not needed for active administrative processes.
• Documents of other institutions and organisations (for example reports of ministries, universities and partners, and Creditinfo market overviews), including copies of them in the archive folder on our server, added when the original link no longer works. If you need one of them in an accessible format, we will help you find or request it.
• Videos and audio recordings published before 23 September 2020, and live streams.
• Third-party content that the Centre has not funded, developed or controlled: documents and websites of other organisations that we link to, YouTube and Facebook content embedded in articles, and videos made by other organisations.
• Online maps. The Centre's address is also given as text on the contact page.

Accessibility features

• Press the Tab key after the page has loaded: the first link, “Skip to content”, takes you directly to the main content.
• In the events calendar, move between dates with the Tab key and select a date with Enter or Space.
• You can enlarge text with your browser's zoom (Ctrl + / Cmd +); the page adapts to the screen width.
• You can switch the language with the flags in the header (Estonian and English).

Feedback

We are continually working to improve the accessibility of this website. If you would like to give feedback on accessibility, have found a problem, or could not access some content, please contact us:

• E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
• Phone: +372 529 5396

We usually reply within five working days.

Enforcement procedure

The Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority (Tarbijakaitse ja Tehnilise Järelevalve Amet, TTJA) monitors the accessibility of public sector websites and mobile applications in Estonia.

• Website: www.ttja.ee
• E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
• Phone: +372 667 2000

Preparation of this statement

This statement was prepared on the basis of a self-assessment. We used an automated test (axe-core, 13 pages in desktop and mobile view), keyboard testing, narrow-screen (320 px) testing an analysis of article content from the database and a check of the Centre's PDF documents (veraPDF, PDF/UA-1). Testing with screen readers (NVDA, VoiceOver) and a full review of the event registration form have not yet been done.

This statement was prepared on 11 November 2026 and last updated on 12 November 2026. We review it at least once a year.