Last Updated: August 6th, 2025
Zink Media, LLC (d/b/a Discogs) and our affiliates are committed to ensuring that persons with disabilities have access to our services, including those offered through our websites and mobile applications (our “Digital Properties”). Accessibility aligns with our mission to provide an inclusive user experience. At a minimum, we strive to adhere to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (“WCAG”) 2.1 Level AA developed by the World Wide Web Consortium. This is to ensure that our Digital Properties are accessible to everyone. We work with accessibility and usability consultants to make sure that our Digital Properties function properly and in compliance with various laws and regulations, including the EU Accessibility Act. Our teams receive ongoing training on accessibility tools and techniques. In addition, automated and manual accessibility testing is built into our processes. This includes product planning, UX & design, development and review processes.
Overview of Discogs Services
Discogs is a tool for music fans and record collectors, where You can explore discographies, build Your collection, connect with fellow music lovers, and buy and sell records using Our online marketplace. We provide You with various content and communication services, including but not limited to the capability to post information to a web page, participate in web-based discussions, and marketplace features. Additional information can be found in our Terms of Service.
Discogs Accessibility Standards
Discogs is committed to meeting the following accessibility standards:
- Perceivable Interfaces:
- Information about services is provided via multiple sensory channels and presented in accessible formats (e.g., text for alternatives, sufficient contrast/font).
- Provide text alternatives (e.g., alt text) for all non-text content, and add captions to all video and audio content.
- Operable Interfaces:
- Digital properties are designed to be fully usable via keyboard (no mouse required).
- Time limits that could adversely affect users with disabilities are avoided.
- Understandable Language & Design:
- Information about services is presented in an understandable way and with consistent, clear navigation, instructions, and form fields.
- Digital properties are designed to be understandable.
- Robust Design:
- All digital information required to provide the service (including websites and mobile apps) is designed to be robust, ensuring compatibility with various assistive technologies.
- Identification, authentication, security, payment functions (when offered as a service, not a product), and all other payment-related features are designed to be robust.
- Accessible Support Services:
- Support services (like help desks) communicate accessibility features using accessible communication tools.
Given our continuous development, full compliance with these standards may not always be consistent across all areas of our website and apps. Please contact us at accessibility@discogs.com if you identify any issues.
Compatibility with browsers and assistive technology
Our Digital Properties are designed to be compatible with common assistive technologies. Discogs develops and tests for accessibility using technologies and techniques including:
- desktop and mobile operating systems
- screen readers: NVDA, JAWS, VoiceOver, and TalkBack
- voice control systems: Apple's Voice Control
- keyboard-only navigation
Our Digital Properties are not compatible with:
- browsers older than 3 major versions or Mobile operating systems older than 5 years
Technical specifications
Accessibility of our digital properties rely on the following technologies to work with the particular combination of web browser and any assistive technologies or plugins installed on your computer:
- HTML
- WAI-ARIA
- CSS
- JavaScript
These technologies are relied upon for conformance with the accessibility standards used.
Limitations and alternatives
Despite our best efforts to ensure accessibility of our digital properties, there may be some limitations. Below is a description of known limitations, and potential solutions. Please contact us if you observe an issue not listed below.
Known limitations:
Information provided by users: Uploaded data and images may not have text alternatives because we cannot ensure the quality of contributions. We monitor user comments and repair issues as soon as possible. Please contact us if you encounter an issue.
Image Galleries: We continue to evaluate our options to provide a more valuable image gallery experience, including enhancements to alternative text.
Image Editor: We continue to process ways in which we may improve our image editor’s drag-and-drop experience, and the resulting metadata as images are re-ordered for the Image Gallery.
Non-English Language Support: We continue to set up unique non-English sites and support articles for accessibility.
Multi-Language Release & Other Entity Pages: We continue to work towards providing a screen reader experience for pages that depict release data with mixed languages on the release itself.
Resize Text: We continue to evaluate our ability to convert multiple mixed values across sites to a singular value type, so that we can make additional text resizing solutions possible.
Support Articles - GIFs as videos: We continue to make progress in enhancing the user experience wherever we have GIFs acting as tutorial videos.
YouTube Videos: Several videos on our websites and mobile applications use YouTube. Embedded YouTube videos are usable via keyboard controls. We continue to modify our own products to prioritize videos with Closed Captions and in-video lyrics, though many have such accommodations already available.
Apple Music: Our mobile applications use an embedded Apple Music player for track preview and playback. Apple's embedded player does not display lyrics. If the artist has provided lyrics, the Apple Music app can be used to play tracks with lyrics.
Assessment approach
We assess the accessibility of our Digital Properties through self-evaluation and third party review.
Complaints
We ask that you notify us of any accessibility issues so that we may help resolve them. You may also contact your local market surveillance authority that oversees accessibility compliance; however, they may ask for evidence that you notified us first prior to them taking any further action.
Contact Us
If you have any feedback or questions regarding our websites or mobile applications, please e-mail us at accessibility@discogs.com or complete our Support Request Form.