Platform · 03
Accessibility is operational, not a feature toggle.
Ascendia is the only European education company in the Microsoft AI for Accessibility Hall of Fame. Accessibility is treated as a procurement-level requirement under the European Accessibility Act 2025 and the Web Accessibility Directive — not a product extra layered on at the end of a project.
Inclusion as infrastructure
Counterparty register · MS Hall of Fame · EAA 2025 · Web Accessibility Directive · WCAG 2.1 AA · EN 301 549
Capabilities
Capabilities are stated as institutional functions, not feature lists. Where a claim has a public source, an inline footnote resolves it.
Aligned to the European Accessibility Act 2025 (Directive EU 2019/882) and the Web Accessibility Directive (Directive EU 2016/2102). Public-procurement standard EN 301 549 and WCAG 2.1 AA hold across the LIVRESQ authoring layer and the CoffeeLMS delivery layer.
Full keyboard navigability across all interactive components. Compatibility with industry-standard screen readers (JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver) through semantic HTML, ARIA landmarks, and skip-link discipline.
Captioning, alt-text, and summarisation surfaces inside LIVRESQ Companion accelerate accessible authoring without offloading the obligation onto the author.
An interim Axe / WAVE self-assessment is published at /legal/accessibility. A signed accessibility statement and conformance report are returned with every RFI response from the Compliance & Governance desk.
Sources
Programmes routed through this pillar
2022 · Microsoft Corporation
Ascendia is one of three education companies worldwide and the only European education company recognised in the Microsoft AI for Accessibility Hall of Fame, awarded in the Education segment for LIVRESQ.
2023 · Ministry of Education, Romania
National-scale public deployment delivered through the EduLib consortium. Accessibility is a delivery requirement, not a separate workstream; the platform is procurement-graded against the same European obligations the Ministry holds.
as of 2026-04 · Ascendia portfolio · EduLib
Open the dossierDesk 03 · R&D, platform, compliance & governance
Gabriel Lazar
Research & Development Director — EC DEC member, technical evidence, accessibility, AI governance, and regulated-enterprise architecture
Service-level commitment
Next steps
Inside this cluster
Accessibility groups the Microsoft AI for Accessibility Hall of Fame recognition, the EAA 2025 / Web Accessibility Directive alignment surface, and the legal estate that procurement evaluators and accessibility auditors look up. The pillar treats accessibility as compliance and legitimacy infrastructure, not a product afterthought.