Website accessibility compliance
Accessimo
Website accessibility compliance for UK businesses selling into the EU.
We help UK companies understand where their website stands against the EU's accessibility rules, in plain English, and what to do about the gaps.
Why now
The EU Accessibility Act is already in force
The European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU) 2019/882) became applicable across the EU on 28 June 2025. If you sell products or services online to customers in the EU, in areas like e-commerce, banking, transport ticketing or telecoms, this almost certainly applies to your website, no matter where your business is based.
2019
Adopted
The Act enters into force as EU law.
2022
Transposed
Member states write it into national law.
2025
Became applicable
Compliance deadline passed on 28 June 2025.
Now
Enforcement under way
National regulators can investigate and act.
01
Who it covers
It covers businesses selling into the EU across sectors such as:
- E-commerce and online retail
- Banking and consumer finance
- Transport ticketing and booking
- Telecoms and e-books
02
What's required
Websites and apps need to meet the EN 301 549 standard, which closely follows WCAG 2.1 Level AA: things like readable contrast, keyboard access, clear labels and screen-reader support.
03
What's at stake
Enforcement differs by member state and is still maturing, but regulators can investigate complaints. More practically, an estimated 87 million people in the EU live with a disability, and an inaccessible site turns real customers away.
Free automated scan
Not sure where you stand?
Enter your website address and we'll run a real automated accessibility scan right now, free, with no obligation to work with us afterwards.
Scanning …
Loading the real page in a browser and checking it against WCAG 2.1 AA. This can take up to 20 seconds.
This is an automated scan only. Testing by the UK Government Digital Service found that automated tools catch roughly 30–40% of real accessibility issues at best. The rest, things like screen reader behaviour and keyboard navigation, can only be found through manual, human testing, which this free tool doesn't do. See the GDS research.
So here's what we know, and what's still unknown: the issues above are real and worth fixing, but they're not a compliance result. A full manual audit is the only way to know your actual legal status.
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- Website accessibility compliance for UK businesses selling into the EU
- Response time
- Within two working days
- Cost to enquire
- Free, no obligation