European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU) 2019/882)
What is European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU) 2019/882)?
Directive (EU) 2019/882 of 17 April 2019 on the accessibility requirements for products and services (the European Accessibility Act, EAA). EAA entered into force on 27 June 2019, Member States transposed it by 28 June 2022 (Article 31), and the substantive obligations apply from 28 June 2025 (Article 31(2)). It comprises 16 controls organised across 7 domains, and applies in the European Union.
How European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU) 2019/882) maps to other frameworks
All 16 controls, each one mapped to the equivalent requirement in other standards, with the evidence that carries across and the mappings that were judged and rejected shown alongside. No account needed to look.
See the control mappings →The 7 domains European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU) 2019/882) groups its controls into
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Questions people ask about European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU) 2019/882)
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Query European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU) 2019/882) programmatically
European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU) 2019/882), its 16 controls and every mapping into other standards are available over a REST endpoint and an MCP server, so an agent can read them directly. The free tier is 10 calls a day and needs no signup.
European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU) 2019/882) API reference and MCP config →What European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU) 2019/882) requires, control by control
Each page carries the requirement text for one European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU) 2019/882) control and what an assessor expects to see as evidence.
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