Accessibility statement

The United Nations Statistics Division wants UN Comtrade to be usable by everyone, including people who use assistive technology such as screen readers, magnifiers or voice control.

The standard we follow

The new pages of UN Comtrade aim to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at level AA, with the enhanced text contrast (7:1) that the United Nations web accessibility guidelines require. They are available in the six official languages of the United Nations.

What you can do on these pages

Use every function with the keyboard alone, and see where the keyboard focus is.
Skip straight to the main content or the main menu.
Zoom up to 400% without losing content or scrolling sideways.
Use a screen reader such as JAWS, NVDA or VoiceOver: pages have headings, landmarks and labelled form fields.
Use the menus and run data queries even with JavaScript turned off.
Read every page in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian or Spanish; Arabic pages read right to left.

The pages work with the settings and tools of your own browser and device (zoom, contrast modes, text-to-speech), so the site does not add tools of its own.

How we check

Before a new page is published, it is checked automatically in all six languages against WCAG 2.1 A and AA and the 7:1 contrast rule, and tested with the keyboard only, without JavaScript and at 400% zoom. Testing with screen readers is part of our release checklist, and an external review of the previous version of the site guides what we check.

Known limitations

Commodity descriptions and the names of reporting countries come from our databases in English, and are shown in English on pages in other languages.
The translations of the new pages into Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish are being reviewed.

Report a barrier

If something on the site is hard to use, please tell us the page and what happened, and we will look into it. Write to comtradeun.org

More information

This statement was last reviewed on 2 November 2026.