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The European Accessibility Act has applied in Ireland since 28 June 2025, through S.I. 636/2023. If you sell online or resell certain hardware it reaches you, and the relief for small businesses is not where almost anyone assumes it is. A few questions and this page tells you which side of it you are on. The answers stay in this tab unless you ask us to email you the result, and there is no account.

14months since the requirements took effect, and enforcement is live.

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European Accessibility Act check

Directive (EU) 2019/882, in Ireland S.I. 636/2023

A scoping result produced from the answers given on the page. It says which conversation you are in. It is not legal advice, and it is current as at the date it was printed.

This is a scoping result worked out from your own answers. It tells you which conversation you are in. It is not legal advice, and it is not a determination that you comply.

What was answered

Optional, and nothing in the answer depends on it. It goes onto the result if you print it, so the document says who it was run for.

Can consumers buy from you online?
01Can consumers buy from you online? Not answered

Can consumers buy from you online?

A consumer is an individual buying for themselves, not a business buying for its business. A shop, a booking page, a form that takes payment from the public. A trade portal where every buyer is a business account is not in scope on this limb, and a brochure site with a phone number is not e-commerce at all.

Do you publish or supply e-books, or software for reading them?
02Do you publish or supply e-books, or software for reading them? Not answered

Do you publish or supply e-books, or software for reading them?

Selling, distributing or making e-books available, and any dedicated reading software you supply with them. Ordinary PDFs on a website are not e-books for this purpose.

Which of these do you make, import or sell?

Do you make, import or sell any of these?

The list is closed. If what you sell is not one of these six, it is not an in-scope product, however electronic it is. Tick everything that applies, or none of them.

Do you employ fewer than ten people?
04Do you employ fewer than ten people? Not answered

Do you employ fewer than ten people?

Headcount across the business, not per site. This is the first limb of the microenterprise test, and it only ever helps on the service side.

Is turnover or the balance sheet total at or under two million?
05Is turnover or the balance sheet total at or under two million? Not answered

Is turnover or the balance sheet total at or under two million?

Either measure will do, it does not have to be both. The second limb of the same test.

Answer them all and the result appears here.

Why this one catches people out

The small-business relief is a service exemption and people read it as a company exemption. A microenterprise providing a service is outside the requirements entirely: under ten people, and turnover or balance sheet at or under two million. There is no equivalent on the product side. None. A five-person shop that resells an in-scope product carries the distributor duties in full, at that size, today.

The product list is also closed, and narrower than it sounds. Computers and their operating systems, self-service payment terminals, other self-service terminals, consumer communications equipment, equipment for reaching audiovisual services, and e-readers. A business selling electronics that are not on that list has no product duties. A business selling one router does.

And the accessibility statement is a separate duty from the accessibility itself. The terms, or an equivalent document, have to describe how the service meets the requirements, in a format a person with a disability can read, kept for as long as the service is offered. Sites that have done the technical work usually have not done this one.

Two other dated ones sit alongside this: the AI Act transparency check and the Cyber Resilience Act check.

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