EAA Accessibility Audit Ireland

Why this matters now

In Ireland, non-compliance is a criminal offence — not an administrative fine.

The EAA was transposed here by the European Union (Accessibility Requirements of Products and Services) Regulations 2023. That instrument sets accessibility duties for consumer-facing digital services and attaches penalties to them. Enforcement has been live since June 2025.

€60,000: Maximum fine on conviction on indictment under S.I. 636/2023. Summary conviction carries up to €5,000.
Personal: Company officers can be held personally liable where an offence was committed with their consent or through their neglect.
10+: Service providers with fewer than 10 staff and under €2m turnover are exempt — but must document why they rely on that exemption.

What you get

A prioritised fix list, not a wall of machine output.

Raw scanner exports list hundreds of warnings with no sense of what matters. Every EAA Ready report is sorted by legal exposure first: the things that stop a customer completing a purchase come before the things that merely annoy an auditor.

Every report covers these areas, each mapped to the WCAG 2.1 AA success criterion behind it.
Criterion	What we check	Why it matters
1.1.1	Text alternatives on images, icons and buttons	Screen-reader users hear "button" instead of "Add to basket"
1.4.3	Colour contrast of text and interface components	The single most common failure on Irish retail sites
1.4.10	Reflow at 200% zoom and at 320px width	Content disappearing off-screen on a phone
2.1.1	Full keyboard operation of every interactive element	A customer who cannot use a mouse cannot check out
2.4.7	Visible focus indicator throughout the journey	Keyboard users lose their place mid-form
3.3.2	Labels and instructions on every form field	Abandoned carts and failed contact forms
4.1.2	Name, role and value exposed to assistive technology	Custom dropdowns and modals that announce nothing

You send your URL
One short form. No call, no discovery workshop, no account to create.
We scan
Automated testing across your key pages using the axe-core engine, the same open-source engine behind most commercial tools.
We verify by hand
On Audit Pro, your three main customer journeys are walked through by keyboard and screen reader — the failures no scanner can see.
You get the PDF
Findings ranked by risk, each with the page, the element, the criterion and a concrete fix.

Pricing

Fixed price, paid up front. No retainer.

Comparable WCAG audits from Irish and UK consultancies start around €900. Ours are built on an automated pipeline, so the same standard costs a fraction of that.

EAA Quick Scan

€149one-off, VAT included

For finding out where you stand before committing budget.

Automated WCAG 2.1 AA scan of up to 25 pages
Risk score and issue count per page
Every finding cites its page, element and criterion
Fix guidance written for your developer
PDF delivered within 48 hours

Order a Quick Scan

EAA Audit Pro

Most complete

€390one-off, VAT included

For sites that actually take orders or bookings from consumers.

Everything in Quick Scan, across up to 60 pages
Manual keyboard and screen-reader testing of three customer journeys
Draft accessibility statement for your site
Documentation you can keep on file for a regulator
Free re-scan after 30 days to confirm your fixes landed
PDF delivered within 5 working days

Order an Audit Pro

Larger site, or several domains? Say so in the form and you will get a fixed quote back, not an hourly rate.

Questions

Straight answers before you pay.

Does this make my site legally compliant?

No, and be wary of anyone who says their audit does. A report tells you where your site stands against WCAG 2.1 AA and what to fix. Compliance follows from making the fixes. We measure the gap; your developer closes it, and the re-scan on Audit Pro confirms it.

Is an automated scan enough?

For a first look, yes — automated testing reliably catches contrast, labelling and structural failures, which is where most sites fail. It cannot judge whether your checkout actually makes sense to a screen-reader user. That is why Audit Pro includes manual journey testing, and why Quick Scan is priced as a starting point rather than a verdict.

We have fewer than 10 employees. Are we exempt?

Possibly, for services. The exemption covers service providers with fewer than 10 staff and turnover or balance-sheet total under €2 million. Two catches: it does not cover products you place on the market, and if you rely on it you should be able to produce documentation showing you qualify. A scan is still the cheapest way to know what you would be exempting yourself from.

What do you need from us?

A URL. Nothing else for Quick Scan. For Audit Pro we also need to know which three journeys matter most — typically homepage to product to checkout, or the booking flow. No code access, no logins, no staging environment.

Can you fix the issues too?

Not as part of the audit. The report is written so your own developer can work through it without another meeting. If you would rather have the fixes done, ask in the form and you will get a separate fixed-price quote.

What if the report finds nothing serious?

Then you have documented evidence of that, which is worth having on file. If a Quick Scan returns no critical or serious findings, the fee is refunded in full — clean sites are rare enough that the offer is safe to make and useful to you.

Order

Order in two minutes. No call, no account.

Pay, enter your website address, and the report is on its way. Dublin based.

Pay securely through Stripe. At checkout you enter the website to be audited. The report arrives by email at the address you use to pay.

Buy Quick Scan — €149 Buy Audit Pro — €390

Larger site, several domains, or a question first? Email [email protected] and you will get a fixed quote back, usually the same day.