EAA enforced since 28 June 2025 · Fines €40k to €1M+
Is your website
about to get fined?
The European Accessibility Act is live and enforced country by country. Shield scans your site, prices the legal risk in euros, and writes the statement regulators ask for first.
No login to scan. Real crawl, real WCAG 2.2 audit — not a checklist.
- harmonised standard
- EN 301 549
- WCAG 2.2 AA, every scan
- 87 criteria
- shortest member-state cure period
- 30 days
9 pages crawled
Estimated legal exposure
€40k–€250k
if a complaint were filed today
Burden of proof is on you. With no statement and no audit trail, “we didn't know” is not a defence.
- CriticalImages missing text alternatives31 elements
- CriticalControls not reachable by keyboard4 components
Accessibility just became a legal liability
The European Accessibility Act turns WCAG from a best-practice nice-to-have into something with real financial and legal teeth. Here's what changed.
28 Jun 2025
Already enforceable
The EAA passed its grace period. Member states are switching on enforcement now — this is not a future deadline you can plan around.
€40k – €1M+
Penalties that scale
Fines run from forty thousand euros into seven figures depending on the member state, repeat findings, and how exposed your revenue is.
On you
Burden of proof
You have to prove conformance — regulators don't have to prove a breach. No statement and no audit trail means no defence.
30 days
Cure periods are short
Some states give you as little as a month to remediate after a complaint. Without a fix plan ready, that window closes fast.
One loop, from URL to defensible
Five stages run on every scan and on every scheduled re-check. The output is the paperwork a regulator asks for first — not a wall of console warnings.
01Crawl
Map every page
Reads your sitemap, falls back to a same-origin crawl, and queues each page — capped to your plan.
02Audit
Run a real audit
axe-core inside a headless browser checks each page against WCAG 2.2 AA, capturing the exact selector and DOM.
03Score
Translate to legal risk
Findings map to EN 301 549 clauses and roll up into a conformance grade and an indicative € exposure band.
04Generate
Produce the statement
Auto-fills the EN 301 549 Accessibility Statement — conformance status, known limitations, enforcement contacts, a ref ID.
05Monitor
Watch every deploy
Scheduled re-scans diff against the last run and alert you the moment a release re-introduces a barrier.
Built for the businesses the EAA actually targets
If you sell, publish or run software for European users, you're in scope. Shield is tuned for the teams carrying the most exposure.
Ecommerce & DTC
The EAA names ecommerce explicitly. Every checkout, filter and product page is in scope — and your revenue is the exposure.
Agencies
White-labelYou carry liability for every site you ship. Monitor the whole client roster from one dashboard and hand over statements under your own brand.
B2B SaaS
App surfaces, marketing site and docs all count. Bake conformance into the release process so a deploy can't quietly regress it.
Publishers
High page counts and constant content churn make manual audits hopeless. Continuous scanning keeps the whole library defensible.
axe, WAVE and Lighthouse are developer toys
They're great at finding violations and useless at proving compliance. Shield speaks the language a regulator does — and never stops watching.
Developer scanners
- Dump a list of raw violations
- Speak in CSS selectors, not consequences
- Run once, on whichever page you remembered
- Leave the legal paperwork entirely to you
- Go quiet the moment the next deploy ships
A11y Shield
- Score conformance and indicative € legal risk
- Map every finding to WCAG 2.2 and EN 301 549
- Crawl the whole site, on a schedule you set
- Generate the Accessibility Statement regulators ask for
- Alert you the instant a release re-exposes you
Start free. Scale when the risk does.
Tiered by sites, pages per scan and monitoring cadence. Agencies get white-label statements and dashboards to resell.
Free
Free
Run a one-off accessibility scan and see where you stand.
- 1 site
- Up to 5 pages per scan
- Full WCAG 2.2 issue breakdown
- Prioritised fix list
- On-demand scans (no monitoring)
Solo
£29/mo
For a single store or product site you want to keep compliant.
- 1 site
- Up to 25 pages per scan
- Weekly automated monitoring
- Email alerts when new issues appear
- Trend history and score over time
Business
£79/mo
For growing ecommerce and SaaS teams running several properties.
- Up to 5 sites
- Up to 100 pages per scan
- Weekly automated monitoring
- Email alerts and trend history
- AI-assisted fix suggestions
Agency
White-label£199/mo
For agencies monitoring accessibility across a roster of clients.
- Up to 25 sites
- Up to 250 pages per scan
- Weekly automated monitoring
- White-label reports and dashboards
- Your branding, logo and colours
All paid plans include weekly monitoring and exportable reports. Prices in GBP, excluding VAT.
Formal notice · Free scan, no login
Find out where you stand before a regulator does.
Run a free scan in under a minute — grade, € risk and the top barriers, no login. Then turn on monitoring so a bad deploy can never quietly re-expose you.
A11y Shield provides indicative compliance guidance, not legal advice. € exposure ranges are estimates based on EAA penalty bands.