Wilco Fiers / Accessibility beyond WCAG: EAA & EN 301 549

EN 301 549 is Europe's standard on ICT accessibility. It includes various requirements not covered by WCAG, including for non-web software, authoring tools, and electronic devices. The European Accessibility Act (EAA), starting June 2025 will mean many organizations across different industries needing to apply these requirements. So in this talk we'll introduce EN 301 549, and learn how it's different from WCAG.
About the speaker
Wilco is principal product owner of axe-core and axe DevTools at Deque Systems, based in The Netherlands. He has worked in accessibility for over 18 years. In this time he has worked in auditing, consulting, standards authoring, and accessibility tool development. Notable work includes project manager of WCAG 3.0, founding chair of ACT Rules Community, lead developer of axe Linter and WCAG-EM report tool, and industry advisor to the EU's Web Accessibility Directive Expert Group.
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[@MatthewLeathes]

10:52 struggling to understand what 'services signed after' means here? Specifically with respect to an existing product, would that mean that new sales of that (existing) product after June 28 would need to meet EAA?

[@ChasMusic]

25:21 It appears that, like WCAG, they have punted on respecting system motion and transparency settings. EN 301 549 section C.11.7 makes no mention of these settings, alas. San Francisco (California, US) government's Digital Accessibility & Inclusion Standard does mention respecting motion settings. But one advantage of EN 301 549 is that it covers a broad geographic area.