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Accessibility, and what the law asks of a website

There are two accessibility regimes in Ireland and they bind different people.

Ireland has one web accessibility duty for the public sector, in place since 2020, and one for private businesses, in place since June 2025. They come from different EU Directives and different Irish regulations. Different bodies enforce them, and they do not ask for the same things.

The articles below keep them apart. They also set out exactly where the exemption for the smallest businesses (microenterprises) stops: it covers services, and it does not cover products.

Free checkDoes the Accessibility Act reach you?Six questions, or seven if you deal in a product. They cover online selling, e-books, phone, internet, TV access, transport and banking services, the product categories and both parts of the microenterprise test. The result prints as a document.

4 articles on this

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Being a microenterprise exempts your website. It does not exempt your shelf.
Microenterprises are exempt, but only for services. Regulation 5(4) exempts a service provided by a microenterprise. It says nothing about the products a business sells.16 minute read · 13 sources
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What an Irish online shop's accessibility statement must say, and who does not need one
The law calls it information, not a statement. It goes in your terms and conditions or an equivalent document, and a microenterprise is exempt from it entirely. For a shop that is not a microenterprise, here is what it must contain, the provision behind each part, and the template not to copy.17 minute read · 17 sources
European Accessibility Act
WCAG AA on an Irish website: what the law asks, and what to fix
The Irish Regulations never mention WCAG. What they require is four properties, and WCAG is how you demonstrate them.10 minute read · 9 sources
European Accessibility Act
Does the European Accessibility Act apply to your website?
Two questions settle it for a shop. Do you sell to consumers? And do you have fewer than ten people, with turnover or balance sheet total of 2 million euro or less?10 minute read · 7 sources

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Accessibility, and what the law asks of a website

4 articles on this

Being a microenterprise exempts your website. It does not exempt your shelf.

What an Irish online shop's accessibility statement must say, and who does not need one

WCAG AA on an Irish website: what the law asks, and what to fix

Does the European Accessibility Act apply to your website?

What we do about this

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