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European Accessibility Act

Obligations under Directive (EU) 2019/882

26 pages covering the articles that create a duty for an economic operator and the annexes that carry the requirements. Each states who it binds, from when, and what evidence proves it. Requirement text is verbatim Official Journal; guidance is Legalithm commentary.

Member States apply their transposing measures from 28 June 2025 (Article 31(2)). Services may continue using products lawfully used before then until 28 June 2030, and service contracts agreed before 28 June 2025 may run to expiry, at most five years (Article 32).

No harmonised standard is cited in the Official Journal under this Directive, so the Article 15(1) presumption of conformity is available to nobody. EN 301 549 is harmonised under Directive (EU) 2016/2102, the Web Accessibility Directive, and not under this one. Conformity is demonstrated against Annex I directly.

Corpus as of 2026-08-14, not reviewed by counsel.

What this pack does, and what it does not

It produces the conformity documentation: the Annex V accessibility information, the Article 14 and Annex VI disproportionate-burden assessment, and the Annex IV technical file. Each is anchored to the Annex I requirement it answers, because there is no harmonised standard to anchor it to.

It does not test or repair your interface. Accessibility overlays and audit engagements do that, and if your service is not accessible you need one of them. They are not substitutes for each other: an audit tells you what to fix, and this records how the requirements are met, for whoever asks.

The two meet at the evidence. A finding from an automated or manual test is carried here as supporting evidence against a named Annex I requirement, never as a presumption of conformity, because under this Directive no certificate confers one.

Articles

Annexes