Articles in
accessibility-compliance
Accessibility compliance, demystified — what it means under the ADA, EAA, WCAG 2.2 and EN 301 549, the country map, and the next steps to take regardless of where you operate.
canada
Canada runs two parallel accessibility regimes — the federal Accessible Canada Act of 2019 and Ontario's AODA of 2005 with its 2021-updated IASR. Who they bind, when compliance bites, which technical standards apply, and how enforcement actually works.
australia
Australia's Disability Discrimination Act 1992 is a federal non-discrimination law applied to digital services through case law since Maguire v SOCOG (2000).
eu-ai-act
Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 — the EU AI Act — entered general application on 2 August 2026. A primer on how Article 16 (general-purpose AI obligations) and Article 73 (high-risk AI requirements) intersect with disability law in employment, education, and essential services.
eaa
European Accessibility Act (EAA) explained — Directive (EU) 2019/882 became enforceable on 28 June 2025. Scope, WCAG 2.1 AA / EN 301 549 reference, microenterprise carve-out and the Article 14 disproportionate-burden defence.
france
France's Référentiel général d'amélioration de l'accessibilité (RGAA) version 4.1.2 is one of Europe's most-cited national accessibility frameworks.
germany
Germany's accessibility regime layers three statutes — the federal BGG (2002, reformed 2016), the technical BITV 2.0 ordinance, and the EAA-transposing BFSG (2021) — over a parallel set of sixteen Länder laws and a 2025 BAFA enforcement turn-on.
japan
Japan's 2024 amendment to the Act on the Elimination of Discrimination Against People with Disabilities introduced the region's first hard private-sector reasonable-accommodation duty.
us-law
Federal ADA Title III gives plaintiffs injunctive relief and fees. California's Unruh Act and the New York City Human Rights Law add per-visit statutory damages — and that is why two states host the overwhelming share of web-accessibility filings.
uk
After leaving the EU, the UK kept a dual digital-accessibility regime — the Equality Act 2010 as universal anti-discrimination law plus PSBAR as the public-sector regulations that transposed the Web Accessibility Directive.