Your site's accessibility compliance. Audited, fixed, documented.
Legal obligation since June 2025, enforced across Europe. Clarantium audits, fixes and documents your compliance — no widget.
Free automated scan · No commitment · Covers 30% of WCAG 2.1 AA criteria
It's no longer optional. It's a regulated obligation.
The European Accessibility Act (EAA), transposed into national law, mandates compliance for digital services open to the public. Non-compliance is sanctioned.
Fine per violation, cumulative
If you sell or serve online, most likely yes.
The obligation targets digital services for consumers, above the micro-enterprise threshold. Three profiles are on the front line.
Online shops
Checkout, product pages, payment: every step must be usable by keyboard and screen reader.
B2C online services
Customer portals, forms, dashboards for the general public fall within scope.
Booking, banking, transport
Appointments, accounts, ticketing: critical journeys are the most scrutinised.
A three-step journey, from diagnosis to continuous coverage.
Flash audit — 48 h
Automated and manual tests (keyboard, screen reader) against WCAG 2.1 AA. Prioritised report delivered in 48 h.
Request this audit →Remediation
Fixing gaps in your code, working with your teams. Compliant accessibility statement included.
Request a quote →Continuous monitoring
Automated re-scan, monthly report, regression alerts on each release. Compliance documented and maintained.
Learn more →An accessibility widget does not make you compliant.
Automatic overlays promise compliance with one line of script. Authorities and user associations have established otherwise.
The automatic overlay
- Only fixes a fraction of criteria, and masks the rest.
- Legally insufficient: does not constitute genuine compliance.
- No named responsibility, no documented audit report.
- Sometimes degrades the experience for the users it targets.
The Clarantium audit
- WCAG 2.1 AA audit report, prioritised, with accessibility statement guidance.
- Real fixes in the source code, criterion by criterion.
- A named expert, accountable and reachable.
- Accessibility that truly serves your users.
"Accessibility auditing is not a checkbox exercise. Every criterion we test represents a real user who might be excluded. We audit like we would for our own site — with the same rigour, the same attention to detail, and the same refusal to cut corners."
The rigour of a specialist firm, proven by example.
WCAG 2.1 AA, in full
The official standard applied in detail, not an auto-generated approximate checklist.
Manual + automated
Tools catch part of the gaps. The rest requires human testing with keyboard and screen reader. We do both.
One point of contact
You speak to the expert who audits and signs. No ticket, no black box.
Our own site targets AAA
Browse this site by keyboard, disable images, launch a screen reader. We don't sell what we don't practise.
Our audit framework
What business leaders ask us.
Am I really affected by the obligation?
If your site or digital service is aimed at consumers and your company exceeds the micro-enterprise threshold (10 employees or €2M revenue), you are very likely affected. This covers e-commerce sites, online banking, booking platforms, audiovisual media, and any B2C digital service. The 28 June 2025 decree extended this obligation to the private sector, enforced by the DGCCRF. The Clarantium flash audit analyses your site within 48 hours and gives you a definitive answer on your regulatory status, with no commitment.
What are the concrete risks in a control?
The enforcement mechanism is progressive but designed to deter. The DGCCRF first issues a formal notice with a compliance deadline. If uncorrected, an administrative fine of €7,500 per violation is imposed — and it is cumulative: a site with 10 non-conformities could theoretically face €75,000. A daily penalty of €3,000 may be added until full compliance, capped at €300,000 total. Beyond the financial aspect, reputational risk is significant: enforcement decisions are published, and excluding users with disabilities represents direct customer loss.
Doesn't an automatic overlay or plugin solve the problem?
No, and this is critical. Automatic overlays only address 10–30% of accessibility criteria, and they do so superficially, without modifying the source code. French authorities, the Federation of the Blind, and the National Digital Council have all confirmed that an overlay does not constitute legal compliance. Only direct source-code fixes, documented by an RGAA 4 audit report from a qualified auditor, allow you to demonstrate compliance to regulators. Companies relying solely on an overlay face the same penalties as those that have done nothing — with the added risk of having invested in a false sense of security.
How long does compliance take?
The first step — the flash audit — is delivered within 48 business hours. It is a prioritised report identifying gaps and their severity. The remediation phase depends on the scope of corrections needed: for a 20-page brochure site with moderate issues, expect 2–4 weeks. For a complex e-commerce site with dynamic forms and a checkout flow, the timeline may extend to 6–8 weeks. We scope every engagement with an agreed fixed fee and precise timeline once the audit report is delivered, so you know exactly what to expect before committing. Continuous monitoring then maintains compliance over time.
Do you work with my developers?
Yes — this is our preferred way of working. We provide a prioritised, actionable audit report with corrective code snippets for every identified gap. We can either fix directly in your codebase (via pull requests or dedicated commits), or support your teams by providing precise technical specifications for each fix. The latter approach is often the most effective long-term: it upskills your developers on accessibility and reduces the rate of new non-conformities by 40–60%. We adapt to your workflow — Git, Slack, Jira — for seamless integration into your existing sprints.
Know where you stand. In 48 hours.
A clear compliance diagnosis, prioritised risks, and a precise path to documented, maintained accessibility.
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