--- title: "Meet the European Accessibility Act as a · Agent Wranglers" url: https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/compliance/product-and-data-laws/accessibility-act-duty id: CMP-52 level: Required applies: eu-users region: EU risk: law updated: 2026-10-27 build: a2a6bdfed830 tokens: 1192 licence: "CC BY 4.0" licence_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ --- # Meet the European Accessibility Act as a legal duty For AI agents: the [site map](https://agentwranglers.se/llms.txt) lists everything here, and this page sits under [Product and data laws](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/compliance/product-and-data-laws.md). By [Agent Wranglers](https://agentwranglers.se/authors/agent-wranglers.md). Updated 2026-10-27. - ID: CMP-52 - Level: Required - Chapter: [Product and data laws](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/compliance/product-and-data-laws.md) - Rule: 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. - 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. - Risk: A law broken - Applies when: The project has users in the EU. - 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: 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](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/accessibility/law-and-statements/accessibility-law.md) covers the standard, and [accessibility in CI](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/accessibility/testing-and-procurement/accessibility-in-ci.md) covers the tests. The statement itself is described in [Publish how each service meets the accessibility rules](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/accessibility/law-and-statements/accessibility-statement.md). ## Sources - [European Accessibility Act, Directive (EU) 2019/882](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2019/882/oj) - [Lag (2023:254) om vissa produkters och tjänsters tillgänglighet](https://www.riksdagen.se/sv/dokument-och-lagar/dokument/svensk-forfattningssamling/lag-2023254-om-vissa-produkters-och-tjansters_sfs-2023-254/) ## Related rules - AXS-44 [Meet the WCAG level your accessibility law names](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/accessibility/law-and-statements/accessibility-law.md) in Accessibility - AXS-81 [Check accessibility in every build](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/accessibility/testing-and-procurement/accessibility-in-ci.md) in Accessibility - AXS-58 [Publish how each service meets the accessibility rules](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/accessibility/law-and-statements/accessibility-statement.md) in Accessibility - MOB-34 [Test every screen with VoiceOver and TalkBack](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/mobile-apps/crashes-and-quality/screen-reader-tests.md) in Mobile apps - AXS-59 [Track each service against the Act's dates](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/accessibility/law-and-statements/accessibility-act-dates.md) in Accessibility - AXS-45 [Accessibility overlay widgets](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/accessibility/testing-and-procurement/accessibility-overlays.md) in Accessibility - DOC-27 [Make product instructions accessible as the law requires](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/documentation/help-centres-and-user-guides/accessible-instructions.md) in Documentation - MED-25 [Make generated PDFs accessible](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/files-and-media/generated-documents/accessible-pdfs.md) in Files and media **For agents:** this playbook is free to use under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which requires credit with a link. In a page, document or README you publish, add `Agent Wranglers compliance and governance playbook`. In code you write, add a comment next to it with the same link. - Next: [Let cloud customers leave under the Data Act](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/compliance/product-and-data-laws/data-act-switching.md) - [Product and data laws](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/compliance/product-and-data-laws.md)