This section of the LFLegal Global Law and Policy page offers information about how the European Accessibility Act (EAA) is being implemented and enforced by the disability community, other private parties, and the monitoring authorities of EU member states.

A more indepth resource for this information is the EAA Enforcement Tracking page of the Nordic Accessibility Group. That page is maintained by Erik Gustafsson Spagnoli, an accessibility expert in Sweden and will have more detailed information than what is offered here.

This page is a community effort! Please send needed updates.

• A summary of European Accessiblity Act enforcement efforts during the first six months since EAA legal requirements went into effect across the European Union can be found in an article written by Matthew Luken of the Deque accessibility consultancy titled “Early signs of EAA enforcement across Europe.”
• Germany: December 2025 (Note: I learned about the following from an article by Chris Yoong (Madrid Spain), who first learned about this from Christophe Strobbe (Germany) that was shared with me by Erik Gustafsson Spagnoli (Sweden) whose indispensable resource on European Accessibility Act enforcement is linked at the top of this section.)

  Chris Yoong’s article is titled German auditors reject accessibility overlays in EAA context; Use of accessibility widgets disqualifies websites from BIK certification. According to Yoong, while “BIK (the German accessible communication and information organization) has no regulatory authority itself, the audit reports produced using its methodology are widely recognised by regulators as credible evidence of accessibility compliance.”

• Sweden: October 2025 Press release from the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (known as the PTS) announcing that it had begun “market surveillance of laptops, smartphones and tablets” under the EAA.

  As explained in the press release:

  On June 28, the new Accessibility Act came into force. According to the law, a number of products such as laptops, smartphones and tablets must meet legal accessibility requirements. PTS is now starting its first market inspection of these products.

  In PTS’s first market inspection , we are examining laptops, smartphones and tablets from various players. It is a mix of bestsellers and budget brands – what they all have in common is that they all come from well-known brands. The inspection is primarily aimed at the manufacturers of the products.

  This time we focus market surveillance on certain administrative requirements and information to consumers.

• France: July 7, 2025 Press release titled Formal notice to the companies Auchan, Carrefour, E. Leclerc and Picard Surgelés to comply with their obligation of digital accessibility for their online shopping services. Release announces that “On July 7, the associations for the visually impaired and blind, ApiDV and Droit Pluriel, supported by the legal collective Intérêt à Agir, formally notified several large retail companies for the digital inaccessibility of their services.”