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European Accessibility Act Compliance Guide

What the EAA requires, who it applies to, and a clause-by-clause audit you can run today.

The 28 June 2025 enforcement date has passed. Most EU-facing sites are non-compliant. This is the guide we wrote to audit ourselves first.

For: EU-facing e-commerce, SaaS, fintech, and anyone selling into the EU

What is inside

The EAA became enforceable on 28 June 2025. This guide unpacks what it actually asks for, where the obligations bite, and how to audit your site against it before someone else does.

Section preview

  • Does it apply to you? The exemptions worth knowing about, including the microenterprise threshold and the disproportionate-burden clause.
  • Who is responsible. Manufacturer, importer, distributor, service provider. You are probably more than one.
  • The clause-by-clause audit. 60 items mapped to EN 301 549 v3.2.1 across perceivability, operability, understandability, robustness, documentation, e-commerce, and mobile.
  • The accessibility statement. What regulators look for first, including the seven required sections and the evidence to retain.
  • The 30-day fast path. A practical sequence for sites that need to be defensible quickly.

A sample of the audit

  • Every interactive element is reachable and operable with the keyboard alone.
  • A skip-to-content link is the first focusable element on every page.
  • <html lang="..."> is set on every page with the correct language code.
  • Pages have no duplicate id attributes.
  • An accessibility statement is published, linked from every footer, and includes conformance status, non-accessible content list, assessment date, feedback mechanism, and enforcement link.

Get the full 60-item audit and the fast-path plan below.

A 13-page technical and operational guide to the European Accessibility Act and EN 301 549 v3.2.1. Covers scope, role-based obligations, a 60-item clause-by-clause audit, the accessibility statement structure regulators expect, and a 30-day fast-path for sites caught short by the deadline.