How to Pass the EAA 2025 Accessibility Audit — A Step-by-Step WCAG Checklist
The European Accessibility Act (EAA) will be enforced starting June 28, 2025, requiring compliance for products reaching EU customers. Companies must ensure their digital services meet WCAG 2.1 AA standards to avoid significant fines and potential market withdrawal. A checklist is provided to help businesses achieve compliance efficiently.
- ▪The EAA applies to any product that interacts with users through a screen, regardless of the company's location.
- ▪Fines for non-compliance can reach up to €100,000, along with the risk of being forced to withdraw products from EU markets.
- ▪Meeting WCAG 2.1 AA standards covers approximately 95% of the EAA web requirements.
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Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
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| Original publisher | DEV.to (Top) |
| Canonical URL | https://dev.to/toolkitonline/how-to-pass-the-eaa-2025-accessibility-audit-a-step-by-step-wcag-checklist-1kl |
| Publication time | Mon, 25 May 2026 21:44:54 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-25T22:07:40.571Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-25T22:07:40.571Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | mNeCAFDndIw3 |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3835996) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } DevToolsmith Posted on May 25 • Originally published at fixmyweb.dev How to Pass the EAA 2025 Accessibility Audit — A Step-by-Step WCAG Checklist #a11y #webdev #wcag #eu The European Accessibility Act (EAA) came into force on 28 June 2025. If your product reaches EU customers — and you ship a website, a SaaS, an e-commerce store, an e-book reader, or really anything users interact with through a screen — the EAA quietly became one of your hard requirements.
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