Make your site accessible to everyone with Accessibilia
Accessibilia is the tool that allows you to make the tools available to improve the usability of your site’s content to visitors with special needs. All you have to do is activate Accessibilia from your CookieMan control panel and customize its graphic elements: in just a few clicks you can make your site compliant with the accessibility requirements established by the European Accessibility Act that will be implemented by all Member States of the European Union starting from June 28, 2025.
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European Accessibility Act: what changes from 28 June 2025
Up to now, the topic of accessibility has been regulated mainly by the Stanca Law, Law 4 of 2004. This regulation applies mandatorily to the Public Administration and private companies with an annual turnover of more than 500 million euros. But all this is about to change.
The European Accessibility Act (EAA) is a European directive (2019/882) designed to ensure that digital products and services (such as websites, apps, platforms and e-commerce tools) are also accessible to people with disabilities. Each Member State is required to transpose and apply the directive by 28 June 2025. The EAA marks an epochal transition, because it significantly expands the scope of the obliged entities. The European Accessibility Act therefore represents a fundamental step in the evolution towards a more inclusive and equal digital society.
The standard refers to WCAG, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, which are the international guidelines defined by the W3C to make websites and applications accessible.
These guidelines are based on four fundamental principles:
- Perceivable: information must be perceivable by all users;
- Usable: The interface must be easily navigable and operable;
- Understandable: Content and interactions must be clear;
- Robust: Content must be interpretable by assistive technologies.
WCAG, designed to keep pace with the expansion of technology and digital access, are not only designed for people with disabilities, but improve the digital experience for all users, making content more accessible and usable in any context. The version referred to in the EAA is WCAG 2.1, version 2.2 has already been released and there is talk of the new version 3.0 which will define a further level of guidelines.
Accessibilia is the simple and EAA compliant answer: integrated for free in CookieMan, it helps you make your site accessible in just a few clicks.
EAA recipients who must comply
Public Administrations and Public Bodies
Public Administrations and Public Bodies
- public economic bodies and private companies concessionaires of public services
- regional municipal companies and public assistance and rehabilitation bodies
- transport or telecommunications companies with a majority public participation
- IT service contracting companies
- and all subjects who receive public contributions or incentives for the provision of their services via information systems or the Internet
Private companies with a turnover exceeding 500 million euros
Private companies with a turnover exceeding 500 million euros
that offer services through websites or mobile applications
Private companies that provide digital products or services covered by the provision
Private companies that provide digital products or services covered by the provision
and who have more than 10 employees or a turnover or balance sheet exceeding 2 million euros
What services and products are affected?
Services
- E-commerce services, considering e-commerce not the narrow definition of the term, but a broader typology of sites: from large-scale retail trade to vertical e-commerce, from marketplaces to booking platforms, from digital content stores to food delivery portals. This category therefore includes all sites that allow commercial activities carried out via the internet, including sales, advertising, distribution of products or services, and online financial transactions both B2B and B2C
- Electronic communication services (telephony, messaging, Internet access)
- Services providing access to audiovisual media content
- Digital elements of passenger transport services (travel information, booking, check-in, ticketing, etc.)
- Consumer banking services (home banking, mobile banking apps, ATMs)
Products
- Hardware systems and operating systems intended for consumption by the public
- Self-service terminals, including payment terminals, automated teller machines (ATMs), ticket machines and information kiosks
- Electronic book readers (e-readers)
- Equipment for audiovisual media services, such as interactive digital TVs and related control devices
If your company runs a website, app or digital service aimed at the public, and is an SME or a large enterprise, the EAA directly affects you. You could risk administrative fines of up to €40,000!
How Accessibilia helps to comply with the EAA
Accessibilia is the solution designed to help you easily address the new challenges of digital accessibility. If you are a company, an organization or an agency, it allows you to offer an inclusive web experience, compliant with WCAG 2.2 standards and the directives of the European Accessibility Act, which will come into force on 28 June 2025. With just a few clicks you can integrate useful tools into the site for users with visual, motor or cognitive disabilities, without having to redesign everything from scratch. It can be activated independently, adapts to any project and, if you use CookieMan, is included free of charge in the license.
A simple, strategic and responsible choice: to protect your business and truly improve access to information.
Adjust the texts
Customize the readability of content by adjusting text size, spacing, and style. Users can increase or decrease characters, choose a high-readability font, adjust alignment, line spacing, and letter spacing.
Improves text comprehension for people with dyslexia, cognitive impairment, or mild vision impairment.
Adjust the colors
Optimizes the contrast and visual perception of content for every need. The user can activate high contrast, monochrome mode, invert colors or choose dedicated filters for three forms of color blindness: protanomaly, deuteranomaly and tritanomaly.
Ensures more effective visual access to content and buttons even in the presence of color perception deficits.
Manage content
Adapts visual content to avoid distractions or cognitive overload. You can hide images, automatically highlight links and titles, or turn off all animations on the page.
Ideal for people with photosensitive epilepsy, ADHD, cognitive disabilities, or simply those who prefer a cleaner, more focused interface.
Navigation aids
Improves interaction with the site through visual and keyboard support tools. Includes an extra-large cursor (white or black), a line-by-line reading mask, a visual guide and keyboard navigation.
Facilitates consultation for people with motor disabilities or low vision, even in the absence of a mouse or touch.
The obligations of the recipients of the European Accessibility Act
The obligations can be summarized in three main points:
- Structural adaptation of the site
The website must be designed and created following precise technical requirements, which refer to the WCAG guidelines.
This means taking care of the code structure, color contrast, keyboard navigation, compatibility with screen readers and other assistive technologies. - Adoption of online accessibility solutions
Technical design is not enough: the inclusion of accessory tools is also required, which allow real use of the contents also by people with disabilities.
For example, these include accessibility widgets and integrated voice readers. - Accessibility Statement
It is mandatory to publish an Accessibility Statement that certifies the level of compliance of the site or service.
In some cases, for example for public administrations, the statement must also be transmitted and published on AgID, via the official platform.
All these obligations are based on a precise technical reference: the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines – WCAG, the international standard developed by the W3C.
The WCAG are not just a set of technical rules: they are a fundamental tool for building an inclusive, usable, sustainable user experience for everyone – with or without disabilities.
The deadlines
