UTYPIA HIGHLIGHTS MAY 2025
EAA European Accessibility Act
Law on accessibility in the e-commerce sector
uTypia supports you with the implementation
As the deadline of June 2025 approaches, companies across Europe must prepare for the full implementation of the European Accessibility Act (EAA). This legislation stipulates that a wide range of products and services must be accessible to people with disabilities, which is an important step towards inclusion and equal participation in society.
In contrast to previous accessibility legislation, this now also applies to companies in the EU in the private sector,
that have at least 10 employees and a turnover of 2 million. The directive will officially come into force on 28.06.2025.
Failure to comply with this law can lead to fines, legal action, exclusion from public and private procurement opportunities as well as reputational and financial risks.
The uTypia team has been offering accessible stores in accordance with the WCAG 2.1 standard for several years now. Among other things, this also includes the requirements for compliance with the EAA. The latest improvements and additions are currently in progress and will be implemented and made available to you in time.
What does an accessible web store mean? For example, people with disabilities often use tools that read out the content of a website for them. To make this possible, all content must be labeled accordingly. An image must have an alt tag to describe the content; a link and a heading should be labeled as such. Furthermore, the contrast of the website must be good. If possible, simple language should also be used. You must also provide a declaration of conformity with this law (uTypia: currently in progress). To give you a better idea, we offer a demo store - feel free to take a look around!
What do you have to do as the shop owner of a uTypia shop
to comply with this law?
- Check whether you fall into the group that must comply with the law.
If you do:
- Adjust the contrast of your webshop. For example, uTypia Business 6 has its own color settings
- Prepare the content for your declaration of conformity. Some of these can already be found on the Internet, e.g. on websites of public offices, if you need guidance. You are responsible for the content yourself, including legal responsibility.
- As soon as this page for entering the content is available (currently in progress), enter the content in your store(s).
- If you have entered your own images, e.g. on the homepage of your store, check and correct the AltTags if necessary. This is also recommended for search engines - we have reported on this.
If you would like to take advantage of this service (excluding the creation of legally relevant content) from the uTypia support team, this can be booked via an additional service package.
As always, we are happy to provide you with the best possible support!
Imprint-Image and production-image
Further improvements in our uTypia consumernext B2C solution
As some of you may have already seen, for some time now we have also been offering the display of a sample imprint image in uTypia consumernext. This can further enhance your customers' shopping experience.
The images are automatically imported when the catalog data is imported from the uTypia catalog into the Magento catalog; this also applies to an update with the uTypia catalog.
As an administrator in the Magento backend, you can now also see the personalization layout that your customer created during the order process.
We are pleased to be able to make this improvement available to you. If you have any questions, the uTypia support team will be happy to help!
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New Trodat products
As always, when there are new Trodat products, we offer you the special service of copying them into your online catalogs. We have created all the new products ready for you, so you don't have to go to the trouble yourself.
Feel free to ask us what you would like to sell in your online range! Your uTypia Support Team contact will be happy to take care of it. All you then need to do is enter the desired price and any own adaptions (different product text, article numbers, etc.).
Here is an example of the new Trodat Creation Stamps! You are also welcome to follow the Trodat News.
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Tips for uTypia shop administrators
What can I improve when creating templates?
Info on updates at the weekend
We also want to improve the user experience of uTypia admins. So here's a tip from us today: when you create templates, these are also added to your shopping cart when you are logged in as an admin. With a large number of templates, this also results in a large number of customizable products in the shopping cart. This can slow down the saving process. So our tip: empty the shopping cart from time to time! You can do this easily via manage open baskets or manually in the shopping cart itself. This will also speed up the saving process considerably.
Additional note from us: The uTypia team often makes updates and adjustments at the weekend. This is to ensure that there is as little disruption as possible to ongoing operations during normal office hours. During this time, a store may respond more slowly than usual.
Longer downtimes due to planned maintenance windows will, as always, be communicated by us in good time.
Thank you for your interest in our news!