This English text is a courtesy translation. The German accessibility declaration is the authoritative version.
College Fashion (EXTRA Group GmbH) is committed to making this online shop accessible to everyone, on the basis of the German Accessibility Reinforcement Act (BFSG) and the European standard EN 301 549. As our testing and quality benchmark we apply the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, Level AA, thereby exceeding the level referenced by law through EN 301 549 (WCAG 2.1 AA).
This statement applies to the online shop college-fashion.de, operated by EXTRA Group GmbH, Mathes-Deutsch-Weg 24B, 84036 Landshut, Germany.
college-fashion.de offers academic regalia and graduation items (including gowns, doctoral caps and sashes) as well as personal keepsake products. Products are selected and ordered online, payment is processed through the connected payment service, and orders are delivered by shipping.
Compliance status
Based on our self-assessment, this online shop is largely conformant with the requirements stated above. Our ongoing automated checks currently reveal no automatically detectable violations of the success criteria tested.
Continuous automated monitoring. Last automatically verified on 19 July 2026 — with no automatically detectable failures against the tested success criteria. Automated testing covers only part of the requirements and does not replace a full manual review.
In-depth run at maximum testing depth. In addition to daily monitoring, last passed on 20 July 2026: consensus of several independent testing engines (axe-core, IBM Equal Access, Siteimprove Alfa, QualWeb, markup validity) across all crawled pages, keyboard journey, structural, media, interaction and language checks, AI-assisted review of alt texts and control names, screen-reader announcement transcript, additional WCAG 2.2 checks (including target size 2.5.8), testing of interactive states, cross-browser runs (Chrome, Safari/WebKit, Firefox) and PDF/UA checking of linked documents — with no automatically detectable violations.
Scope and testing methodology
We test this website continuously using a combination of automated testing and manual expert evaluation, for conformance with WCAG 2.2 AA and the harmonised requirements of EN 301 549.
Monitored automatically every day (with alerting on any regression):
- rule-based WCAG testing with axe-core across the crawled pages,
- keyboard operability (reachability, no keyboard traps, focus order, skip link),
- heading semantics, consistency of visible text and accessible name, and further structural checks,
- reflow at 320 CSS pixels / up to 400 % zoom without horizontal scrolling.
Reviewed regularly and, in addition, in depth / manually:
- consensus of several independent testing engines (axe-core, Siteimprove Alfa/ACT, IBM Equal Access, QualWeb) plus markup validity,
- in-depth, partly AI-assisted review of alt-text quality, link and control purpose, form error handling, and WCAG 2.2 criteria such as “Focus Not Obscured” (2.4.11),
- journey testing with a real screen reader (NVDA) on key pages (announcement of name, role, value and status messages),
- expert review of contrast in interaction states, target sizes of controls, and media content,
- checking of embedded PDF documents for PDF/UA (ISO 14289) conformance using veraPDF,
- complementary cross-browser test runs (Chrome, Safari/WebKit, Firefox).
Known limitations
The payment process is handled by our service provider Shopify in a separate area. Sign-in is handled by our shop provider’s authentication service (Shopify) using an email one-time code (with no password to remember); we review the accessibility of this step manually on a regular basis. Interactive elements embedded in our pages (e.g. the Memorybook designer and our advisor chat) are ours and are included in our testing. Should individual detail elements not yet be fully conformant, we remedy them on an ongoing basis.
Feedback and contact
Have you encountered a barrier, or do you need content in an accessible format? Please get in touch — we will respond promptly and remedy the issue.
EXTRA Group GmbH · College Fashion
Tel. +49 871 97 40 734-0 · service@college-fashion.de
Market surveillance
The competent market surveillance authority for the accessibility of services is the market surveillance body of the German federal states for the accessibility of products and services (Marktüberwachungsstelle der Länder für die Barrierefreiheit von Produkten und Dienstleistungen, MLBF), c/o Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, Health and Equality of the State of Saxony-Anhalt, Postfach 39 11 55, 39135 Magdeburg, Germany, MLBF@ms.sachsen-anhalt.de.
Created on 27 June 2026. Self-assessment in accordance with the BFSG and EN 301 549; testing benchmark WCAG 2.2 AA. Method: a combination of daily automated full-site testing (axe-core, keyboard, structure/headings, reflow/zoom) and regular, additionally manual expert evaluation (multi-engine consensus, alt-text quality, screen-reader journey with NVDA, contrast in interaction states, target sizes, media) with cross-browser test runs. The governing verification dates — daily monitoring and the in-depth run — are shown above and updated automatically. Despite careful, continuous testing, individual barriers cannot be entirely ruled out.
