European Accessibility Act – Ensure Compliance By 2025 Deadline

The June 2025 deadline for Irish businesses to comply with the European Accessibility Act ("EAA") is fast approaching. This article gives an overview of what that will take and draws on Matheson's experience of advising the Department on the transposition of this EU-derived legislation into Irish law.

The EAA is applicable across the EU and the Irish legislation has no particular quirks, and so many organisations may have already developed an EU wide compliance solution outside of Ireland. However, in-house teams who are headquartered in Ireland and / or have an Irish-specific website/offering need to start preparations to comply with the EAA now. While some are already subject to accessibility rules under sector-specific legislation, including in the telecoms and media sectors, the EAA's requirements apply separately and in addition to those requirements and thus make implementation and ongoing compliance even more complex for those businesses.