EAA accessibility standards

Page audit for compliance and accessibility

Since June 2025, the European Accessibility Act requires digital accessibility in the private sector. Geoptim analyzes your pages against EAA, RGAA and WCAG 2.1 standards, identifies non-conformities and delivers you a prioritized compliance roadmap.

The regulatory framework

Digital accessibility is no longer optional

The European Accessibility Act (EAA) has been applicable since June 28, 2025: e-commerce sites, banking services, transport, and digital media must be usable by all, including people with disabilities.

EAA: the obligation

European Directive 2019/882 extends accessibility obligations to the private sector. Non-compliance = administrative sanctions, injunctions and reputational risk.

RGAA: the French accessibility standard

The General Framework for Improving Accessibility breaks down international standards into 106 verifiable criteria, page by page.

WCAG 2.1: The Technical Foundation

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (level AA) define technical criteria: perceivable, operable, understandable, robust.

What Geoptim's page analysis covers

A page-by-page analysis that combines regulatory compliance and technical accessibility, with directly actionable recommendations.

EAA / RGAA Compliance Audit

Each page is scrutinized against applicable criteria: you know exactly where you stand regarding your legal obligations.

  • Assessment of EAA, RGAA and WCAG 2.1 AA criteria
  • List of non-conformities identified, criterion by criterion
  • Regulatory Risk Level for Each Page

Technical accessibility audit

A concrete analysis of actual user experience, including with a screen reader or keyboard navigation.

  • Contrasts, text sizes and readability
  • Keyboard navigation, focus and ARIA attributes
  • Text alternatives, heading structure and forms

Compliance roadmap

A clear report, prioritized by impact and risk, ready to share with your technical team or service provider.

  • Fixes prioritized by impact and effort
  • Concrete recommendations, element by element
  • Detailed and shareable report

Visibility bonus: an accessible page is also a better structured page, better understood by Google and generative AIs. Compliance strengthens your AI and SEO positioning.

Our method

A four-step approach

From the initial assessment to the counter-audit, each step produces a concrete deliverable to move towards compliance.

1

Analyze

Page by page

Audit of your key pages against EAA, RGAA and WCAG 2.1 criteria: structure, contrasts, navigation, media, forms.

2

Report

A quantified snapshot

Detailed compliance report: non-conformities identified, affected criteria, and risk level for each analyzed page.

3

Fix

A prioritized action plan

Concrete recommendations ranked by impact and effort, ready to be integrated into your technical team's backlog.

4

Check

The counter-audit

New analysis after corrections to validate compliance and measure your accessibility progress.

Frequently asked questions about compliance and accessibility

What you need to know about EAA and Geoptim page analysis

The European Accessibility Act (European Directive 2019/882) is the text that requires digital accessibility for products and services in the private sector. It has been applicable since June 28, 2025: e-commerce sites, banking services, transportation, telephony and digital books must make their user interfaces usable for people with disabilities.

WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) is the international technical reference: it is based on their criteria (level AA) that a page is evaluated.
The RGAA is the official French implementation of WCAG, used for legal obligations in France.
The EAA is the European directive that makes this accessibility mandatory for the private sector. In practice: the EAA imposes, the RGAA frames, WCAG defines the technical criteria.

You are concerned if you offer European users one of the services covered by the EAA: e-commerce, banking and financial services, ticketing and transport, electronic communications, audiovisual media or digital books.

Micro-enterprises in the services sector (fewer than 10 employees and less than €2M in turnover) benefit from an exemption, but accessibility remains an asset: it improves the experience for all users and strengthens your quality signals with Google and AIs.

Geoptim analyzes your pages one by one and crosses two dimensions:

  • Compliance: evaluation of EAA / RGAA / WCAG 2.1 AA criteria applicable to the page
  • Technical accessibility: contrasts, keyboard navigation, ARIA attributes, text alternatives, heading structure, forms

You receive a detailed report with identified non-conformities and recommendations prioritized by impact, ready to share with your technical team.

Yes. An accessible page is better structured: hierarchical headings, alternative texts, semantic HTML, clear navigation. These are exactly the signals that Google and generative AIs use to understand and cite content.
Working on accessibility therefore simultaneously strengthens your legal compliance, your SEO, and your AI positioning.

In France, non-compliance with the EAA exposes you to administrative and criminal sanctions (fines that can reach several tens of thousands of euros, compliance orders), not to mention the risk to your image and loss of users.
Regular audits of your key pages allow you to identify gaps before they become a legal dispute.

Where does your site stand against EAA?

Have your key pages reviewed for compliance and accessibility, and receive a prioritized action plan.

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