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An EN 301 549 Assessment Answers Europe's Web Standard With Evidence
For the team answering an EU tender or a client questionnaire that names EN 301 549, and wanting to answer it with test results rather than a shrug.
What We Keep Finding
EN 301 549 reads like a part number, and that is exactly what it is. It is the European standard for accessible technology, and it is what the European Accessibility Act and EU public procurement both lean on. Buyers ask for it by name. The part that concerns your website is clause 9, and for the web the requirements there map to WCAG 2.1 Level AA. Meet those and you can answer in the standard's own language rather than in yours.
Now the thing worth knowing before you spend money, because most vendors selling this will not tell you. The version cited in the Official Journal today is V3.2.1, from March 2021, and that is the one carrying WCAG 2.1. A draft V4.1.0 exists and moves the web clauses to WCAG 2.2 Level AA, but it is still a draft working through ETSI's process, so no newer version is published and no citation date is fixed. So the standard is about to catch up with the version we already test. Nothing you do now goes to waste, because the versions are built to be backwards compatible. Content that conforms to WCAG 2.2 also conforms to 2.1 and to 2.0, which means one audit answers the standard as it reads today and as it will read next year.
That is why we audit against all 55 WCAG 2.2 A and AA rules rather than against the 2.1 subset alone. You get an answer for the tender in front of you and an answer for the version arriving behind it, in one pass, at one price.
What We Check
- Audit the web clause of EN 301 549, the part that maps to WCAG 2.1 AA
- Test all 55 WCAG 2.2 A and AA rules, so the 2.1 subset comes verified inside
- Run your buying and support journeys with a real blind screen-reader user
- Report findings in the clause numbering procurement checklists actually use
- Flag anything that would stall a tender answer, ranked by user impact
What You Get
Every service on this site runs the same three-pass engine: an automated scan, an expert review of all 55 WCAG 2.2 A and AA rules, and a hands-on session with a professional blind screen-reader user. You get one report with every finding screenshotted, ranked by user impact, and linked to its fix. Your team fixes, we verify: the re-audit is half price within 3 months.
The format is not a mystery either. Read the sample report before you spend anything.
The Honest Limit
One honest limit, and one clause we can partly serve. The limit is that EN 301 549 covers far more than websites. Kiosks and hardware have their own clauses, and clause 11 covers software including native mobile apps, none of which our desktop web audit reaches. We name the clauses we tested and the ones that need a different specialist rather than letting a web answer stand in for the whole standard. The one to ask us about is clause 10, non-web documents. That is your PDFs, and it is not outside what we do, it is simply a separate piece of work with its own scope and its own price.
What It Costs
Rapid Audit: $499, up to 10 pages you pick, report in 5 business days. Standard Audit: $1,499, up to 25 pages in 10 business days. Flat rates, no discovery calls, and a real blind screen-reader user on every engagement. Pick your pages. We bring the humans.
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