WCAG 2.1 AA audits and remediation for shops and services in Germany, Austria and Romania. The European Accessibility Act has applied since 28 June 2025, and market surveillance and the first warning letters have started.
EU: European Accessibility Act. Germany: BFSG. Austria: BaFG. Romania: Legea 232/2022. The technical standard behind all four is EN 301 549, which means WCAG 2.1 level AA.
Illustration: a typical product page with four barriers marked. The product image has no text alternative, the search field has no label, the button text has a contrast of 3.3 to 1 instead of 4.5 to 1, and the wishlist icon button has no name.
Automated checks find only part of the barriers, so these are lower bounds. Method, table and observations.
Three things every shop owner should know before the market surveillance letter arrives.
The European Accessibility Act covers online shops, banking, ticketing and transport, telecom and e-books. Existing sites get no general grace period; only contracts signed before that date have transitional rules.
Micro-enterprises with fewer than 10 staff and under 2 million € turnover are exempt for services.
The law points to EN 301 549, which points to WCAG 2.1 level AA: sufficient contrast, full keyboard use, names for every control, sensible structure, usable forms and zoom to 200 %.
You also have to publish an accessibility statement.
Germany: fines up to 100,000 € under § 37 BFSG, warning letters since August 2025, and the market surveillance office (MLBF) scanning shops from autumn 2026.
Romania: ANPC, ADR and ANCOM supervise Law 232/2022. Austria enforces the BaFG.
Audit first, then fixes in your actual code, then a statement you can stand behind.
Automated scan of your home, product and checkout pages plus a manual keyboard and screen-reader pass. You get a prioritised list and a fixed-price quote for the rest.
Every template against the WCAG 2.1 AA checklist: NVDA and VoiceOver, keyboard only, 200 % zoom, mobile. A report your developers can work from, and a draft accessibility statement.
I implement the fixes in your theme or front end, Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, Shopware or custom, as pull requests you can review. Each fix is re-tested.
The accessibility statement goes live, a monthly scan watches for regressions, and every release gets a spot check.
Fixed prices where the scope is fixed, a quote where it depends on your code. All prices exclude VAT.
| Detail | Quick check | Full audit | Fixes in code | Monitoring |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best for | Knowing where you stand before you budget | Shops and services that need a complete picture and a statement | Getting to conformance without tying up your own team | Staying conformant after every release |
| Included | 3 key pages, automated and manual checks, prioritised list, quote | Up to 10 templates, full WCAG 2.1 AA checklist, screen readers, keyboard, zoom, mobile, developer report, statement draft | Implementation in your codebase as reviewed pull requests, re-testing, final statement | Monthly automated scan, quarterly manual spot check, statement updates |
| Delivery | 3 working days | 2 weeks | Depends on scope, typically 2 to 6 weeks | Ongoing, cancel monthly |
| Price | 490 € | from 1,900 € | from 2,500 €quoted after the audit | 250 €per month |
| Action | Book a quick check | Request an audit | Ask for a quote | Ask about monitoring |
Agencies: I also work white-label, audits and fixes delivered under your name.
Every issue in my reports names the rule, the impact, how many elements are affected, where they are, and the fix. This one is real, taken from a mid-size Romanian electronics shop in the study.
Read the full sample report or see six common barriers before and after.
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<button class="owl-dot"><span></span></button>
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<button class="owl-dot" aria-current="true">
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I am Daniel Butnar, a web developer in Brașov. I build with Next.js, React and plain HTML, and I have held my own sites to WCAG AA since before the law required it. I speak German, Romanian and English, so the audit, the statement and the developer hand-off arrive in your language, and I can talk to your agency directly.
I use automated tooling, including AI-assisted code review, to cover ground fast. Every finding in a report has been checked by hand, because scanners only find part of the picture and a report full of false positives wastes your developers’ time.
Send me the address of your shop. You get a reply within one working day, and the report within three.
Prefer e-mail? Write to daniel.butnar@gmail.com.
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