European Accessibility Act · WCAG 2.1 AA · EN 301 549
Accessibility compliance scanning built for EU markets
The European Accessibility Act has applied to e-commerce, banking, and other consumer-facing services since 28 June 2025. Wexlo scans your site against WCAG 2.1 AA, shows exactly what to fix, and drafts your accessibility statement.
Free scan: one page, no account needed — results by email.
What Wexlo does
Automated WCAG 2.1 AA scanning
Every scan runs the axe-core rule engine against WCAG 2.1 A/AA — the technical basis of EN 301 549, the harmonised standard behind the European Accessibility Act.
Code-level evidence
Each finding names the exact rule, WCAG criterion, impact level, and CSS selector — your developers see precisely which element to fix, not a vague score.
Plain-language fixes
AI-written explanations and concrete fix suggestions (markup, ARIA, CSS) per finding. The rule engine decides what's a violation; AI only explains it — never the other way around.
Multilingual reports
Reports and draft accessibility statements in English, Dutch, French, and German. Spanish follows with our Spain rollout.
No overlay widgets
Wexlo doesn't inject a JavaScript overlay that claims to fix accessibility client-side. You get findings and fixes for your actual code.
Scheduled re-scans
Monthly, weekly, or daily re-scans by plan. Regressions surface in your portal before a customer — or an authority — finds them.
What automated scanning can and cannot do
Automated checks reliably cover roughly 30–50% of WCAG 2.1 AA success criteria — missing alt text, contrast, ARIA misuse, form labels, heading structure. The rest (meaningful alt text, logical reading order, keyboard traps, caption accuracy) requires human judgment. Every Wexlo report states which criteria were tested automatically and which need manual review. No automated scanner can certify legal compliance — anyone claiming otherwise is overclaiming.
Real findings, not an overlay
Why we don't sell an accessibility overlay
Overlay vendors inject a JavaScript widget and claim it makes a site compliant. In April 2025 the FTC's final order against overlay vendor accessiBe (Docket No. C-4817, a $1M non-admission settlement) barred it from claiming its automated products can make websites WCAG-compliant without evidence. Wexlo takes the opposite approach: we report what is broken in your actual code and how to fix it there.
Enforcement is national
Each EU member state enforces the Accessibility Act through its own market-surveillance authority — ACM in the Netherlands, DGCCRF in France, FOD Economie in Belgium, the Länder authorities in Germany. Enforcement practice and penalties differ per country; Wexlo reports map findings to the authority relevant for your market.
Start with a free scan
One page, scanned against WCAG 2.1 AA, results in your inbox in minutes. No account, no credit card.