European Accessibility Act

Regulation European Union · 2019

The European Accessibility Act requires a defined set of products and services — including e-commerce, e-books, banking services and consumer digital services — to meet accessibility requirements, with obligations applying from June 2025. It harmonises requirements across member states and, unlike Section 508, reaches private-sector services directly rather than through public procurement.

Horizontal regime. It binds companies by what they do with data, software or customers, not by the sector they sit in. The industries below are where it creates specific, additional duties — not the limit of who has to comply.

Countries

Where this binds. Each links to the providers apis.io has catalogued there.

austriabelgiumdenmarkestoniafinlandfrancegermanyirelanditalynetherlandspolandportugalspainsweden

Regions

europedachfrance iberianordicsbeneluxitaly southern europecee

Industries

Each links to that industry as a scored cohort — so the question "how ready is this sector for the regime that governs it?" becomes one you can actually look at.

e commerce platformbankingmediavideo streamingtravel technologytechnology

Implemented by these standards

A regulation is the law; a standard is the machine-readable contract that satisfies it. Almost every regime in this catalog restricts an interface rather than requiring one — where a standard exists, it is the part a provider can actually publish.

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