Accessibility

What the law requires

Since 28 June 2025 the European Accessibility Act requires digital services sold to consumers to be accessible: online shops, banking, transport, e-books. Each EU country has its own law for it; in Italy it is Legislative Decree 82/2022. Micro-enterprises providing services are exempt: fewer than 10 employees and annual turnover or balance sheet up to 2 million euros. Public sector websites have had similar rules for years.

The technical reference is the EN 301 549 standard, which for the web points to WCAG 2.1 level AA.

What I check

• that everything works with the keyboard alone, with the focus always visible;
• that a screen reader reads headings, buttons, forms and images in the right order;
• colour contrast, and text enlarged to 200% with nothing cut off;
• form error messages, which have to say what to fix;
• subtitles on videos, and readable PDFs.

I test with a real screen reader as well as automated tools, which on their own only find some of the problems.

What you get

The list of problems in order of severity, the fixes in the code, and the accessibility statement to publish on the site.