Guides on EAA compliance and web accessibility
News on how the European Accessibility Act is actually being enforced, plus evergreen guides on WCAG and audits. Every claim sourced; we say plainly when something has not happened.
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What actually changed in European accessibility enforcement, with the sources. Updated 27 July 2026.
What you actually risk if your site is not accessible
Fifteen months in, not a single EAA fine anywhere in the EU. What does exist: a French ruling, German competitor warnings with an invoice, and regulators publishing lists.
Read the article →What the EAA Exempts on Your Website: Old PDFs, Videos, Maps and More
The EAA does not require every old PDF or video on your site to be fixed. Here is what Article 2(4) actually exempts.
Read the article →How to Document an Article 14 Assessment: Retention and Renewal Rules
What the EAA actually requires you to write down, keep, and redo if you rely on the disproportionate burden or fundamental alteration exception.
Read the article →Disproportionate Burden Under the EAA: What Article 14 and Annex VI Actually Allow
Can you skip web accessibility because it costs too much? The EAA's disproportionate burden exception is narrower than most think: it applies requirement by requirement, not across the board.
Read the article →Accessibility overlays and the EAA: why a widget does not make your site compliant
Overlay widgets restyle a page in the visitor's browser but leave the code untouched. The European Accessibility Act checks the code, the journeys and the statement, so here is what the widgets change, what they do not, and the route that works.
Read the article →EAA compliance tools: what automated checks catch, and what they never will
Automated scanners find roughly a third of WCAG issues, and overlays find none. What an EAA compliance tool genuinely does, what only a person can judge, and the order of work that gets you there.
Read the article →Two French courts, one month apart, reached opposite conclusions on web accessibility
Caen ordered Carrefour to make its site and app fully accessible. Lille dismissed the same claim against Auchan. What each decision actually says.
Read the article →Who is actually enforcing the European Accessibility Act in 2026?
No EU regulator has publicly fined a named company yet. Here is what is really happening in Germany, Spain and France — and the 2030 deadline nobody mentions.
Read the article →EN 301 549 v4.1.0 is in public enquiry, and it aligns with WCAG 2.2
The draft standard now points at WCAG 2.2. But v3.2.1 is still what the Official Journal cites. What that means for your audit today.
Read the article →Guides
Evergreen explainers on the EAA, WCAG and how an audit works.
Shopify accessibility and the EAA
What the Theme Store actually guarantees, where your responsibility starts, and the barriers we find most often on real Shopify stores.
Read the Shopify guide →WooCommerce accessibility and the EAA
WooCommerce ships accessible defaults — then your theme, page builder and plugins undo them. Where to look first.
Read the WooCommerce guide →The European Accessibility Act for online shops: 2026 practical guide
Who it applies to, what WCAG 2.1 AA involves, the penalties per country, and what to do first.
Read the guide →EAA deadline 2025: who must comply?
The micro-enterprise exemption explained correctly, national transpositions, and a quick self-check.
Check if it applies to you →WCAG 2.1 AA explained
The four POUR principles, real AA success criteria with examples, and how it compares to WCAG 2.2.
Understand the standard →WCAG 2.2 new criteria checklist for EAA ecommerce compliance
The 6 new AA criteria that matter for online shops, ranked by real audit frequency.
See what's new →The online shop accessibility checklist for the EAA in 2026
Prioritised checklist for homepage, product pages and checkout, ordered by real-world frequency.
Read the checklist →Manual accessibility testing vs automated
What axe-core catches (~57% by volume), what only a human tester finds, and why real audits need both.
See the comparison →Why accessibility overlays don't protect you from the EAA
The $1M FTC fine, the lawsuits against overlay users, and what real compliance looks like instead.
Read the overlay breakdown →EAA accessibility statement: template and real example
The exact section-by-section structure regulators expect, plus a filled-in example for a small shop.
Read the statement guide →Find out where your site stands — free
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