Accessibility compliance
The problem we solve

Accessibility
compliance

Meeting the standard before an audit forces it.

Accessibility compliance against EN 301 549 and WCAG 2.1 AA for pharmaceutical websites, brought current before a deadline, an audit finding, or a complaint forces urgent remediation under time pressure.

The problem
What is included

What accessibility compliance
actually involves

What it involves

Most pharma sites we audit fail on the same small set of issues repeatedly: contrast, keyboard operability, untagged PDFs and inaccessible forms. These are known, fixable problems, and addressing them proactively costs far less than remediating under audit pressure.

See the EAA deadline: what pharma must do for the fuller compliance timeline.

What we deliver

A full audit against the specific standard your compliance team has identified, prioritised remediation of what is found, verification against the standard, and documentation your team can use for its own compliance statement.

Coordinated with your legal team, not around it

We work from the scope and conformance requirements your compliance and legal team define for the European Accessibility Act, and build the technical implementation to match — keeping the legal determination where it belongs, with them.

case studies

Clients we've worked with

Real projects for industrial and pharmaceutical companies.
Accessibility track record
Track record

What our accessibility
compliance work has covered

The scope our accessibility compliance work has operated within.

+10
years building for regulated industries
+200
organisations have trusted Code
+1.500
documents migrated with their access permissions intact
+160
scientific papers in a single managed repository
Accessibility gaps by site type
Who needs it

Where accessibility gaps
actually concentrate

The typical failure differs by what the site carries. Accessibility compliance starts from that content.

Compliance process
Four stages

How we approach
accessibility compliance

Four stages. Accessibility compliance is fixed at design and code level, not patched superficially.

AUDIT
01
01

Automated and manual, against your actual standard

We audit against the specific standard your compliance team has set, combining automated scanning with manual keyboard and screen-reader testing that automated tools miss.

What we check

We run automated scanning across every template to catch the mechanical issues quickly, then go through key journeys manually with a keyboard alone and with a screen reader, since most real accessibility failures only surface that way, and check PDFs and other documents too.

Result

The audit reflects what someone using assistive technology actually experiences, not only what an automated scanner is capable of detecting, which typically catches a fraction of the issues that matter.

PRIORITISATION
02
02

Ranked by real impact and risk

We rank findings by actual impact on real usage rather than by volume, so the highest-risk issues get fixed first.

What we produce

We rank every finding by how badly it blocks real usage and how likely it is to be flagged in a complaint or review, and estimate the effort each fix will genuinely take, so the list can be used directly to plan remediation.

Result

Your team fixes the issues that create genuine risk and genuine usability problems first, instead of working through a long list in the order it happened to be generated.

REMEDIATION
03
03

Fixed at design and code level

We fix contrast, structure, keyboard operability and form handling at the source, not with superficial patches that fail the next content update.

What we fix

We correct contrast ratios across the actual colour palette rather than one flagged instance, rebuild markup to use proper semantic structure, make every interactive element reachable and usable by keyboard alone, and rework form errors so they are announced clearly.

Result

Because the fixes live in the design system and code rather than as one-off patches on individual pages, they keep holding as content editors add new pages, instead of quietly regressing with the next content update.

VERIFICATION AND DOCUMENTATION
04
04

Evidence for your own compliance statement

We verify the remediation and document what was found and fixed, giving your compliance team the evidence they need to make their own conformance statement.

What we deliver

We retest everything that was fixed to confirm it actually resolved the issue, and write up a clear record of what was found, what standard it was measured against, and exactly what was done to fix it.

Result

Your compliance team gets a document they can hand over as evidence without having to reconstruct the process themselves, supporting whatever formal conformance statement they need to make.

Accessibility compliance FAQ

Accessibility compliance questions

What comes up when addressing accessibility proactively.

Does the European Accessibility Act apply to us?

That is a question for your legal and compliance team. Broadly, the EAA has applied since 28 June 2025 to companies above certain size and turnover thresholds serving EU consumers, with EN 301 549 as the reference standard — whether your specific properties fall in scope is their determination, not ours.

What about our existing PDF library?

Usually this is the largest accessibility gap and one worth scoping properly rather than assuming the website project automatically covers it. A PDF library of any real size, especially forms and technical documents, typically needs its own remediation workstream with its own timeline, separate from the website rebuild itself.

Can you fix this without rebuilding the site?

Often, yes — contrast, focus order, structure and form handling can frequently be corrected in place without a full rebuild. A rebuild becomes the right recommendation only when the platform is built on inaccessible third-party components that simply cannot be reasonably fixed within the existing platform.

Do you issue a conformance statement?

No, that formal statement is issued by your compliance team, not by us. What we deliver is the audit findings, the remediation work completed, and evidence of testing against EN 301 549, which gives your team what it needs to make and stand behind the conformance statement itself.

Related problems we solve

Other pharmaceutical website problems we solve

Accessibility compliance often connects to these related problems.

Accessibility compliance

Address your accessibility
compliance

A deadline approaching, an audit finding, or a site nobody has checked. Tell us your standard and we will tell you how we would approach the accessibility compliance work.

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