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Does the Accessibility Act cover your business?

The European Accessibility Act has applied in Ireland since 28 June 2025 (S.I. 636/2023). It can cover you if you sell online or resell certain hardware.

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FourWinds Digital · fourwindsdigital.com

European Accessibility Act check

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

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Optional, and it does not change the result. If you print the result, the name appears on it, so the page shows which business it was for.

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

Can consumers buy from you online?

A consumer is a person buying for themselves, not a business buying for its own use. Selling online includes an online shop, a booking page, or a form that takes payment from the public. A trade portal where every buyer is a business does not count here. A website that only describes your business and gives a phone number is not selling online 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 offering e-books, and any e-book reading software you supply with them. Ordinary PDFs on a website do not count.

Do you provide consumers with a phone, internet or messaging service, access to TV or streaming, passenger transport, or banking?
03Do you provide consumers with a phone, internet or messaging service, access to TV or streaming, passenger transport, or banking? Not answered

Do you provide consumers with a phone, internet or messaging service, access to TV or streaming, passenger transport, or banking?

Phone, broadband or messaging services; set-top boxes, apps or programme guides that give access to TV and streaming; travel by air, bus, rail or water, where the rules cover the website, app, e-tickets and travel information; current accounts, payments, credit or e-money for consumers. A business that only uses these services itself answers no.

Which of these do you make, import or sell?

Do you make, import or sell any of these?

Only these six kinds of product are covered. If what you sell is not one of them, the product rules do not apply to it, however electronic it is. Tick every one that applies, or leave them all blank.

Do you employ fewer than ten people?
05Do you employ fewer than ten people? Not answered

Do you employ fewer than ten people?

Count everyone in the whole business, across all sites. This is the first half of the test for a very small business (a microenterprise). That test can only ever exempt services, never products.

Is your annual turnover, or your balance sheet total, €2 million or less?
06Is your annual turnover, or your balance sheet total, €2 million or less? Not answered

Is your annual turnover, or your balance sheet total, €2 million or less?

Only one of the two needs to be €2 million or less. This is the second half of the same test.

Answer them all and the result appears here.

The exemption covers services, not products

The small-business exemption covers services only. A service business with fewer than ten people, and turnover or balance sheet of two million or less, is outside the requirements entirely. Products have no such exemption. A five-person shop that resells a product the Act covers has all the duties of a distributor today.

Only the products on the Act’s list are covered: computers and their operating systems, self-service payment terminals, other self-service terminals, consumer communications equipment, equipment for accessing audiovisual services, and e-readers. If the electronics you sell are not on that list, you have no product duties. If you sell even one router, you do.

The accessibility statement is a separate duty from making the service accessible. Your terms and conditions, or an equivalent document, must explain how the service meets the requirements. It must be in a format a person with a disability can read, and kept for as long as you offer the service.

Two other free checks cover duties with a deadline: the AI Act transparency check and the Cyber Resilience Act check.

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