An accessible website should be a basic requirement for businesses, allowing the largest number of people to access a company’s content and services. With technology as an enabler, it also makes good business sense. After all, why would any organization want to hinder customer access? However, many websites are not fully accessible, and when the European Accessibility Act (EAA) comes into effect on June 28, this will be an issue for compliance managers across Europe – and beyond.
Despite having several years of warning, only a quarter of affected businesses are fully prepared to meet the EAA’s provisions, leaving three-quarters at risk of “significant” fines, according to research by enterprise tech firm Storyblok. Only 19.5 percent of the 200 European organizations it interviewed had started working towards compliance, with almost the same number (18.5 percent) not aware of the act at all.
