It can, depending on your company’s size, turnover and whether the site serves consumers in the EU — the European Accessibility Act has applied since 28 June 2025 to companies above certain thresholds, with EN 301 549 as the reference standard, but whether your specific properties fall in scope is a determination for your legal and compliance team, not something we would decide for you.
The European Accessibility Act sets accessibility requirements for a range of products and services, applying since 28 June 2025 to companies above defined size and turnover thresholds that serve consumers in the EU. EN 301 549, which points to WCAG 2.1 AA, is the reference technical standard.
Whether a specific company, and which specific properties, fall within the EAA’s scope depends on facts about the business that only your legal and compliance team can properly assess. We build to the standard once that determination is made; we do not make it.
We build and audit to EN 301 549 and WCAG 2.1 AA as a matter of course, regardless of the formal legal determination, because it is good practice independent of the specific regulatory trigger. See accessibility compliance for how that work is scoped.
The EAA points to EN 301 549, the European accessibility standard, which in turn references WCAG 2.1 level AA as its core web content requirement for a public-facing site. See what is EN 301 549 for how that standard breaks down into specific, testable requirements for a website to meet.
WCAG 2.2 adds several new success criteria on top of 2.1, mainly around focus visibility, target size, and authentication, without removing any existing requirement from the earlier version of the standard. See WCAG 2.1 vs 2.2 for that specific comparison and which version your compliance target should reference for this deadline.
That question needs to go to your legal counsel, since scope depends on factors such as company size and the nature of the service offered, in addition to the industry itself. We can support with the technical audit and remediation regardless of how that scope question is ultimately answered by counsel.
Enforcement mechanisms and penalties are set at the national level by each EU member state, so consequences vary by market and are a legal question rather than a technical one. In practice, most organisations treat the deadline as a hard target and prioritise remediation of the most visible, highest-traffic pages first.
Tell us what you have and we will tell you where it currently stands against EN 301 549 and WCAG 2.1 AA.