About accessmandate
accessmandate tracks European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU) 2019/882) obligations, deadlines, enforcement authorities and penalties, country by country, plus a comparison of accessibility vendors.
Methodology
Every field in the country data carries a source_url pointing to the official legal text, official gazette, or the enforcement authority's own site — never a blog or a consultancy summary. If a fact cannot be confirmed from an official source, the field is left blank rather than estimated. This applies especially to penalty amounts and dates: a wrong number here is worse than no number.
Country data is re-checked monthly by an automated job that searches official sources and opens a pull request with any changes. A human reviews every change before it is published — the job never publishes directly.
Data last reviewed: 2026-09-29. See the changelog for the record of every automated run.
This site's own accessibility
A site about accessibility that isn't itself accessible would say a lot about how seriously to take it. Every page here is tested with axe-core, the same automated engine most of the tools in our vendor comparison are built on, before each deploy. As of 2026-09-29, every page passes with zero violations.
We're not going to overclaim what that means: automated tools like axe-core catch an estimated 20–50% of real accessibility issues, not everything. Contrast, keyboard traps, and genuinely usable screen-reader behaviour still need a human. Passing axe-core is a floor, not a finish line — the same honesty we're asking of the vendors we list.
Vendor listings and affiliate links
Some links on this site, marked "affiliate link," earn us a commission if you buy through them. This does not change how a vendor is described or rated.
Overlay widgets (automated accessibility tools you paste onto a page) generally pay a higher commission than manual accessibility audits. We say this openly because it is exactly the kind of incentive that produces biased "comparisons" elsewhere. Independent accessibility practitioners and disability advocacy organisations have repeatedly found that overlays do not reliably achieve WCAG conformance on their own. We describe what each vendor actually claims and note that dispute — we do not rank overlays above manual audits to chase a bigger commission.
The compliance-check form
Country pages include a short form asking for your email, what you offer, and your company size. We use it to reply directly — nothing more. There is no newsletter, no marketing list, and we do not sell or share what you submit.
Submissions are processed by Web3Forms, a third-party form-delivery service, which forwards them to us by email; we don't run our own database for this.
Not legal advice
This site summarises publicly available legal information. It is not legal advice. Laws change, transpositions get amended, and enforcement guidance evolves. Verify anything you rely on against the official source linked on each country page before making a compliance decision — and talk to a lawyer qualified in the relevant jurisdiction for anything that matters.