You Need an EAA Accessibility Report. You Don't Need to Pay €15,000 for It.

The three options on the market — and the gap none of them was filling

Before EAA-Report, the market offered three options for EAA documentation. Professional audits by accessibility consultancies (€2,000-€15,000 per website, 2-6 weeks lead time, manual evaluation by IAAP-certified experts). SaaS monitoring platforms (€150-€500/month, automated scanning that catches roughly 25% of WCAG criteria, no structured legal report). Free online generators (instant, but they produce a generic Accessibility Statement paragraph with no WCAG evaluation, no legal analysis, and no remediation plan).

The gap was obvious: nobody was offering a structured, criterion-by-criterion self-assessment at a price point accessible to an SME. The Directive itself contemplates this model: Art. 13.2 places the compliance responsibility on the service provider, not on a third-party auditor. You, as the provider, evaluate your own service and document the result. EAA-Report structures that evaluation into a professional report. The model is legally sound because it is the model the Directive designed.

Why the self-assessment model is legally valid

Article 13.2 of Directive (EU) 2019/882 requires the service provider to maintain an Accessibility Statement. It does not require a third-party audit. The responsibility for compliance lies with the service provider, not with an external certifier. This is identical to how product safety works under the New Legislative Framework: the manufacturer performs the conformity assessment and issues the Declaration of Conformity.

EAA-Report works within this framework. You, as the service provider, answer 17 questions based on WCAG 2.1 AA criteria. You evaluate your own web. EAA-Report structures your answers into a professional report that follows Art. 13.2 and EN 301 549. The legal weight of the document depends on the honesty and accuracy of your evaluation — which is exactly what the Directive contemplates.

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When you actually need the full audit — and when EAA-Report is enough

EAA-Report is not a replacement for a professional audit in every situation. If you are a large enterprise with complex web applications, if you are under active investigation by a surveillance authority, if you have received a formal enforcement notice, or if your platform handles financial transactions for a regulated bank — you need a professional auditor with IAAP certification and sector-specific expertise. EAA-Report does not pretend otherwise.

EAA-Report is designed for the other 90% of the market: SMEs, startups, agencies managing 5-50 client websites, cross-border sellers, SaaS vendors responding to European procurement requirements. For these use cases, a €149 structured self-assessment report that documents your current state, identifies gaps, and provides a remediation plan is the proportionate, legally sound first step. You can always upgrade to a full audit later. But having nothing on file today — no Statement, no WCAG evaluation, no remediation plan — is the worst possible position if an authority knocks on the door.

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