We tell you what an automated scan found — and what it could not check.
If you sell to consumers in the EU, the European Accessibility Act applies to you — including if your company sits outside Europe. We scan the pages that carry the exposure: checkout, cart, sign-in, contact. Nothing is installed on your site.
Why this is on your desk now
The European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU) 2019/882) has applied since 28 June 2025, and enforcement began in June 2026. The harmonised standard is EN 301 549 v3.2.1, which incorporates WCAG 2.1 Level AA.
The obligation follows the market, not your address: it applies to any company offering covered products or services to consumers in the EU, including companies established outside Europe. A UK shop that ships to Ireland is in scope.
| Country | Statutory maximum | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Ireland | up to €60,000 | |
| Germany | up to €100,000 | Assessed per violation. |
| France | €5,000–€250,000 | A separate €25,000 per year applies for a missing accessibility statement. First EAA lawsuits filed November 2025. |
| Sweden | up to approx. €900,000 |
What we do not claim
Important
We do not say a scan makes you compliant, because automation cannot do that.
Automated testing decides roughly 30% of WCAG 2.1 AA success criteria. We
report that share as a floor, deliberately — the failure mode of this market is optimism.
In 2025 the US Federal Trade Commission fined the category leader 1 million USD for claiming its automated widget made websites compliant. The FTC found the tool failed on basics: navigation menus, form fields, image descriptions. More than 800 companies using that widget were sued anyway, and settlements routinely require removing the overlay.
So, concretely
- We report what we detected, and with equal weight what we cannot detect.
- We install nothing on your site. No script, no overlay, no injected fixes.
- We never issue a verdict of "compliant". No such verdict exists from a machine.
- Penalty figures are statutory maximums with the source named, never forecasts.
EAA Ready is not a law firm and this is not legal advice.
How it works
We scan the page that matters, not the homepage
A defect on your homepage is a defect. The same defect on your checkout is what an enforcement body leads with, because the EAA attaches the obligation to the service — buying, signing in, getting support. Findings on transactional paths are weighted accordingly.
A real browser, not an HTML parser
Most commerce sites render checkout client-side. A checker that reads only HTML sees an empty shell and reports a clean page. We run the page in a real browser and test the DOM after hydration, which is where the failures that matter live.
The headline is "how many block the task"
Not "47 issues". A missing landmark is untidy; an unlabelled payment field means a screen-reader user cannot buy anything. Counted equally, the second disappears into the first.
Pricing
Monthly, cancel any time. Prices exclude VAT.
Monitoring
€349 per month- Up to 10 monitored paths
- Weekly scan, plus scans on request
- Email alert when a new blocking regression appears
- Shareable HTML report for your developers or counsel
Monitoring Pro
€649 per month- Up to 50 monitored paths
- Daily scan, plus a deploy webhook so regressions surface before customers hit them
- Multiple domains and locales
- Support for drafting your accessibility statement
Note
Monitoring tells you what changed and what an automated test can see. Closing the remaining
~70% of the standard needs human testing, including testing with assistive technology. We
will say so plainly rather than sell you a number that suggests otherwise.
About our scanner
Our scanner identifies itself as EAAReadyBot. It requests a handful of pages,
never in parallel against one site, and honours robots.txt including
Crawl-delay. Where your rules are ambiguous, we treat that as "do not fetch".
If you would rather we did not scan your site, add this to your robots.txt and
we will stop:
User-agent: EAAReadyBotDisallow: /
You can also just email us and we will remove you from our list.
Get a scan
Send us one URL — your checkout, cart or sign-in page — and we will run it and send the report back. It is yours either way, with no reply needed to use it.