European Accessibility Act (EAA) 2025 Compliance
The European Accessibility Act became applicable on June 28, 2025. If you sell certain products or services — including ecommerce, banking, and e-books — to consumers in the EU, it likely applies to you, regardless of where your company is based.
Where the risk actually sits
Overview
The EAA is an EU directive, not a single law, which means enforcement and exact deadlines vary somewhat by member state, but the substance is consistent: businesses covered by the directive have to meet accessibility requirements set out in the harmonized standard EN 301 549, which maps closely to WCAG 2.1 level AA for web and mobile content. A common and costly misconception is that the EAA only applies to companies headquartered in the EU — in practice, it applies based on where you sell and to whom, so a US or UK ecommerce or SaaS business selling to EU consumers can be squarely in scope. There is a microenterprise exemption (fewer than 10 employees and under €2 million turnover), but it doesn't apply once you cross that size, and it doesn't cover every obligated sector.
Source-level fixes, not a workaround.
We audit against EN 301 549 directly — not just WCAG 2.1 AA — so gaps specific to the European standard are caught, remediate the sectors the EAA names explicitly first (ecommerce, banking, e-books, transport ticketing where applicable), and produce the documentation trail (audit report, fix log, retest evidence, and an accessibility statement) that EU enforcement bodies expect to see if your compliance is ever questioned.
Who the EAA actually covers, and since when