REGULATORY DEADLINE: EUROPEAN UNION
The European Accessibility Act is already in force
The EAA has applied since 28 June 2025. There is no future date to plan for; the obligation is current.
Last updated: 16 September 2026
Ireland: a criminal offence, with personal liability
Ireland transposed the EAA through S.I. No. 636 of 2023, in force since 28 June 2025. Non-compliance is a criminal offence.
Summary conviction
A Class A fine of up to €5,000 and/or up to 6 months' imprisonment.
Conviction on indictment
A fine of up to €60,000 and/or up to 18 months' imprisonment.
Officers are liable too
Directors, managers, secretaries, and officers are personally liable alongside the company where the offence is committed with their consent, connivance, or neglect.
Microenterprises
Businesses with under 10 employees and under €2 million turnover are partially exempt.
The Irish enforcement bodies, and the rest of the EU member states, are listed in our accessibility enforcement directory. The wider European picture is in the compliance guide.
Outside the EU, with EU customers
A company outside the EU that serves EU customers has carried the same EAA exposure as an EU-based business since 28 June 2025.
What Pallas does
Pallas is an accessibility remediation platform for organisations that enterprise vendors have priced out.
Find
Scans web pages and PDF, DOCX, and PPTX documents against WCAG 2.2 criteria. Automated scanning covers the criteria that can be machine-tested; a manual review checklist covers the rest, because most of WCAG cannot be verified by software. Pallas scans server-rendered pages; support for JavaScript-rendered applications is on the roadmap.
Fix
Routes every finding through a workflow: status, owner, comments, evidence attachment, retest, and an exceptions register.
Prove
Keeps a tamper-evident audit log (SHA-256) of what you scanned, what you found, and what you fixed, and generates a VPAT 2.5 / ACR from the platform.
Procurement documents
The VPAT, DPA, DPIA, Standard Contractual Clauses, transfer impact assessment, and security whitepaper are published on the Procurement page.
See where your site stands
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