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Accessibility · EAA

Your site has to serve the person who cannot see a mouse.

The European Accessibility Act has been enforceable since 28 June 2025, transposed by each member state — Slovakia as act 351/2022 Coll., Czechia as 424/2023 Coll. We measure your site against WCAG 2.1 AA, hand you the findings ordered by severity, and fix them.

Does this apply to us?

We are not a law firm. We measure and repair the technical state; have a lawyer confirm whether you are a covered entity.

Text contrastWCAG 2.1 AA asks for 4.5:1
Free delivery on orders over €50.
Fails2,6:1

The same sentence in two greys. One of them a share of your customers cannot read.

Who this applies to

The exemption is narrower than companies assume.

The duty reaches e-shops, banking and transport services, e-books, telecoms — essentially any service a consumer orders online.

New services had to comply from 28 June 2025. Those already running fall under a transition period to 28 June 2030 — a phase-in, not a reprieve.

Enforcement sits with the national market surveillance authority — the SOI in Slovakia, the ČOI in Czechia — and the fine ceilings are set nationally.

When the micro-enterprise exemption applies
Fewer than 10 employeesCounted as full-time equivalents.
and at the same time
Annual turnover up to €2 millionOr a balance sheet total up to €2 million.

Conditions adding up…

What an audit finds

The most expensive faults are not visible on screen.

Contrast and missing image descriptions are the easy ones. The real blockers are in the controls — an element that answers a mouse only stops the order dead.

Which is why an audit cannot be done with a tool alone. Automation catches roughly a third of the criteria; the rest has to be tabbed through and listened to with a screen reader.

Getting through checkout on a keyboard Tab
01Field — e-mail
02Field — address
03Delivery choice
04Terms consent
05Place the order

Focus moving through the form…

What it is measured against

EN 301 549 — that is, WCAG 2.1 AA.

The act sets no technical parameters of its own — it points to the harmonised European standard EN 301 549, which for the web adopts the WCAG 2.1 criteria at levels A and AA. It is the same metric across the EU, so one audit result holds for your Slovak, Czech and Austrian sites alike.

Accessibility is not charity for a minority. It is the share of customers who abandon the basket today without ever telling you why.

What we do

Measure, rank, repair.

01

An audit against WCAG 2.1 AA

Automated checks plus tabbing through by hand and listening with a screen reader. Findings come back ordered by who they block and how badly.

02

Repair in the code

We fix what the audit found — semantics, focus, contrast, forms and error states. Not an overlay widget, but a change to the site itself.

03

Design revisited where it has to be

Some findings cannot be fixed without touching the visual design. We say which ones outright and propose the smallest change that clears them.

04

A verification pass

After the repairs we measure again and hand you a written account of what is resolved and what remains.

Related services

Common questions

We are a small company. Does the micro-enterprise exemption not cover us?

The exemption applies only if you have fewer than 10 employees and, at the same time, annual turnover or a balance sheet total up to €2 million. Both conditions have to hold at once — a company of eight people turning over three million is not exempt. Note too that the exemption covers services; products placed on the market are caught regardless.

Our site is from 2019. Do we not have until 2030?

The transition period to 28 June 2030 covers services provided under contracts concluded before 28 June 2025 and equipment already in use. It is not a blanket delay — any new service, new e-shop or substantial rebuild has to comply immediately. In practice it is safer to treat 2030 as a ceiling rather than a deadline.

Is an overlay widget enough?

No. Overlay tools that promise compliance from one script address a fraction of the criteria and actively hinder some users. The act asks for an accessible service, not an installed add-on — and an inspection judges the site, not the widget.

How long does an audit take?

For an ordinary e-shop, expect several days: the automated pass finishes quickly, but tabbing through the key journeys by hand — search, product detail, basket, checkout and sign-in — is work no tool replaces. We scope it precisely after a first look at the site.

What is an accessibility statement and do we need one?

It is a permanently available page setting out the accessibility status of the service, known shortcomings and a feedback contact. The act assumes you publish one. We do not draft it, but the audit gives you exactly the material that belongs in it.

Does one audit result cover sites in more than one country?

Technically yes. Every member state transposed the same directive and measures against the same EN 301 549 standard. What differs is the supervising authority and the fine ceiling, which are set nationally.

No commitment

Send us a link to the site.

We take a look and write back within 24 hours with what is blocking people on it and what an audit would cover. No commitment, no pitch deck.