Agent WranglersCMP-52Required EU law
Meet the European Accessibility Act as a legal duty
Record whether the European Accessibility Act covers your products or services. If it does, meet EN 301 549, publish how you meet it, and test it in every build.
Region
European Union (EU). The duty comes from the law there. The rule applies only when the project serves people there, and its Applies when also holds.
How to do it
The Act, Directive (EU) 2019/882, has applied since 28 June 2025. It covers online shops, consumer banking, e-books, passenger transport services, electronic communications and access to audiovisual media. A microenterprise is exempt for services. That means fewer than 10 staff and a turnover or balance sheet of at most 2 million euros. Contracts signed before 28 June 2025 may run unchanged for up to five years. Sweden wrote the Act into lag (2023:254), in force since 28 June 2025, with the same microenterprise exemption. Publish accessibility information as Annex V asks, in your terms or a statement. If you claim a disproportionate burden, write the assessment and renew it every five years. The accessibility law rule covers the standard, and accessibility in CI covers the tests. The statement itself is described in Publish how each service meets the accessibility rules.
How to check
The obligations register has an EAA decision. When it applies, the build runs accessibility tests on every page. Automated tests find only part of the failures. The register also holds a manual audit against EN 301 549 from the last 12 months. The accessibility information page answers 200 and has a date from the last 12 months.
Sources
- European Accessibility Act, Directive (EU) 2019/882
- Lag (2023:254) om vissa produkters och tjänsters tillgänglighet
Related rules
- AXS-44 Meet the WCAG level your accessibility law names in Accessibility
- AXS-81 Check accessibility in every build in Accessibility
- AXS-58 Publish how each service meets the accessibility rules in Accessibility
- MOB-34 Test every screen with VoiceOver and TalkBack in Mobile apps
- AXS-59 Track each service against the Act's dates in Accessibility
- AXS-45 Accessibility overlay widgets in Accessibility
- DOC-27 Make product instructions accessible as the law requires in Documentation
- MED-25 Make generated PDFs accessible in Files and media
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