European Accessibility Act · EN 301 549 · WCAG 2.2 AA

Selling Into the EU? The Accessibility Act Applies to You

The EAA has applied since June 28, 2025. It covers e-commerce, banking, e-books, travel, and consumer digital services, and it reaches non-EU companies selling to EU consumers. We audit to WCAG 2.2 AA, document conformance against EN 301 549, and give your team a prioritized fix plan.

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The EAA is enforced by national market-surveillance authorities in each member state, and enforcement is complaint-driven. What matters in practice is having done credible conformance work and being able to show it, which is a document and a record rather than a scramble.

Sound Familiar?

  • You sell to EU consumers and have no accessibility documentation
  • A distributor, partner, or platform asked for your EAA conformance evidence
  • You have a WCAG audit from years ago and no EN 301 549 mapping
  • Legal flagged the EAA and nobody owns the response

Before You Compare Quotes

Four numbers worth knowing if this is your first accessibility audit. None of them are about us.

About 30 of 55

Criteria a Tool Cannot Decide

WCAG 2.2 has 55 Level A and AA success criteria. Most of them turn on judgement a scanner cannot make, such as whether alt text is correct rather than merely present. Automated testing is where an audit starts, not where it ends.

$100 to $350

Per Page, How Most Bill

Per-page pricing is the common model, so your page count drives your fee. A store with 300 products on one layout is 300 pages under that model. Ask any provider whether they count pages or templates before you compare two quotes.

$500 to $12,500

The Published Range

That is the span of publicly listed prices across the providers on our comparison page, and the conformance document is often billed separately on top. Quotes vary this widely because scope definitions do.

28%

Of Vendors Have One Ready

We checked 107 recognizable software companies for a conformance report a buyer could actually read. Fewer than a third could produce one without a form or a sales call. The full finding is published.

New to this? The buyer’s guide explains what you are actually paying for, why two quotes for the same site can differ tenfold, and the questions worth asking any provider, including us.

Competitor figures read from each provider’s own published pages on 2026-08-04, and re-checked quarterly. Our own figure is not among them: we size an engagement on a fifteen-minute call and fix it in writing before you commit.

How It Works

Step 1

Confirm Scope and Price

The Act reaches your web product, your app, and the service journeys behind them. Count the unique templates across those journeys, match them to a published tier, and the price is yours before you speak to anyone. Email the list to have scope confirmed in writing, or take a call if the edges are unclear.

Step 2

Audit + Fix Plan

Manual WCAG 2.2 AA evaluation with assistive technology, mapped to EN 301 549, with a prioritized remediation plan your team can execute.

Step 3

Conformance Documentation

An EN 301 549 conformance report and a publishable accessibility statement, the evidence trail the EAA framework expects.

One flat fee, agreed in writing before you commit and covering the conformance document as well as the audit. We size it on a 15-minute call. How engagements work. Delivery date committed at signing, not estimated: signed ACR by Day 21 on a Focused engagement (Day 45 on Standard, Day 60 on Professional), backed by automatic late-delivery credits.

Where This Sits in the Market

  • Overlays and automated scans run a few hundred dollars a year and judge only the part of WCAG a machine can judge. Procurement reviewers know this and send those reports back.
  • Budget VPAT shops publish rates: the document itself from around $350, on top of a per-page audit that commonly totals $1,250 to $2,750. That buys a filled-in template covering a sample of screens, usually with no named evaluator and no committed date. If your buyer just needs a document in the vendor file, buy that one.
  • Enterprise accessibility vendors do genuinely excellent work, and their reports carry real weight. They also sell annual platform-and-services contracts that commonly start in the tens of thousands and run into six figures, because that is the business they are in.
  • Harbor is the rung between. One report, one flat fee, every template tested by hand by a named DHS-certified evaluator whose certificate number is published so your reviewer can read it, on a date committed at signing. Priced for a company that needs one deal unblocked, not a platform subscription.

Figures are competitors’ own published list prices where they publish at all. Most firms at this tier and above quote privately. See the full comparison.

What You Receive

  • WCAG 2.2 AA audit mapped to EN 301 549 (the EAA’s harmonized standard)
  • Accessibility Conformance Report in VPAT® 2.5 INT format (covers EU + US in one document)
  • Publishable accessibility statement
  • Prioritized remediation plan organized by fix location, not by criterion number
  • Follow-up reviews as your team remediates, with a re-issued ACR after each (2 on Focused, 3 on Standard and Professional, 5 on Enterprise)
  • Up to 90 days of post-delivery email support

Want to see the real thing first? Read the sample VPAT/ACR and the sample remediation plan, published in full, or browse all deliverables.

Common Questions

Does the EAA apply to a company outside the EU?
If you provide covered products or services to consumers in the EU, the Act’s obligations can apply regardless of where your company is based. Whether your specific offering is covered is a legal question for your counsel.
What standard does the EAA require?
The harmonized technical standard is EN 301 549, which incorporates WCAG for web and app content. Auditing to WCAG 2.2 AA and mapping to EN 301 549 is the accepted route to demonstrating technical conformance.
Is there an exemption for small companies?
Microenterprises providing services (fewer than 10 staff and under €2M turnover) are exempt from the service requirements, and there are disproportionate-burden provisions. Confirm your status with counsel. Many companies that assume they’re exempt aren’t.

Talk to the Auditor, Not a Sales Team

You will be talking to Andrew Szigety, the accessibility consultant who runs your audit and signs your report. Fifteen minutes, no pitch, and you can end it owing nothing. We work out what counts as a template, what your deadline needs, and where your product is awkward, and you leave with a fee and a delivery date.

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Harbor provides technical audits and conformance documentation, not legal advice. Consult counsel on how the EAA applies to your business.