Regulations
The rules, without the panic.
Accessibility law is less mysterious than the marketing around it suggests. Most frameworks converge on the same technical baseline: WCAG Level AA. Here is the map.
European Accessibility Act
The EU law in force since June 2025 for e-commerce, banking, transport, and other consumer services. Enforced by member states.
Read the EAA deep dive
EN 301 549
The European technical standard that turns the law into testable requirements. For web content, it points at WCAG 2.1 AA.
Understand the standard
WCAG 2.1 and 2.2
The guidelines everything else references: four principles, testable success criteria, and the Level AA bar most laws adopt.
WCAG in plain language
Beyond the EU
United States. The ADA applies to places of public accommodation, and courts have repeatedly treated websites as such. There is no single federal technical standard for the private sector, but WCAG 2.1 AA is the benchmark plaintiffs, courts, and the Department of Justice consistently reference.
Canada. The ACA federally and the AODA in Ontario both set accessibility obligations, with the AODA explicitly requiring WCAG 2.0 AA for public-facing websites of larger organizations.
United Kingdom. The Equality Act 2010 covers digital services, and the Public Sector Bodies Accessibility Regulations require WCAG conformance plus a published accessibility statement for public sector sites.
The practical takeaway
Whatever jurisdiction your clients sell into, the work is the same: meet WCAG Level AA, keep evidence of testing and fixes, and publish an honest statement. That is precisely the workflow Complaudax is built around, from the audit to the documentation.