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africa
The African Union Protocol to the African Charter on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is in force. National laws across 12+ states ratifying.
ada
ADA compliance for websites — Title III, the DOJ Title II 2024 rule, current litigation volume and WCAG 2.1 AA as the federal standard. A current-data guide to ADA website compliance for 2026.
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).
turkey
Across Türkiye, the GCC, the Levant, and Israel, disability-rights frameworks span constitutional anchors, religious-law foundations, recent EU-adjacent reform, and the long aftermath of the 2023 Türkiye-Syria earthquake. The 2026 landscape, mapped country by country.
eaa
Article 13 of Directive (EU) 2019/882 left penalty levels to national legislatures.
eaa
Twelve months after the European Accessibility Act came into force across the EU on 28 June 2025, the first enforcement data is in. Penalties range from €5,000 in Estonia to €500,000 in Germany; scan-coverage between 30% and 70%; transposition still uneven.
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.
ada
A side-by-side reconstruction of how digital-accessibility law is actually enforced in 2026 — roughly 12,000 private US filings under ADA Title III against a few hundred regulator-led actions in the EU, UK.
section-508
Nine years after the 2017 refresh harmonised Section 508 with WCAG 2.0 AA, the standard is overdue for a WCAG 2.2 update, an AI-procurement scope expansion, and the Access Board's 2025 RFI is finally surfacing what comes next.
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.
wcag
Two-and-a-half years after the W3C published WCAG 2.2, only a fraction of legal references that previously cited 2.0 or 2.1 have updated. The 9 new SCs are where the gap shows — focus appearance, target size, dragging, redundant entry, accessible auth.