For web agencies in the EU
Your clients are asking about the Accessibility Act.
EN549 audits their websites against EN 301 549 — the harmonised European standard the Accessibility Act points to — and returns the report in your agency's name. You get a service to sell. They get a straight answer. Nobody has to hire a specialist.
What EN 301 549 actually is
Worth being precise, because the number matters when a client's legal team asks.
EN 301 549 is the harmonised European standard for accessibility requirements of ICT products and services. It is the technical standard the European Accessibility Act refers to, and it incorporates WCAG 2.1 Level AA for web content.
In practice that means: if a website meets WCAG 2.1 AA, it satisfies the web portion of EN 301 549. That is what we test, and what our reports document.
What we test against
- EN 301 549 rule mapping
- WCAG 2.1 Level A and AA
- Real browser rendering, not source-code guessing
- Cookie walls dismissed before testing, so we see the actual page
The awkward question you can't answer yet
A client forwards an email from their legal team asking whether their website complies. You know it probably doesn't. You have no way to prove it, price it, or fix it — and "we'd need to bring in a specialist" loses you the work.
You keep the client
No referring the work to a consultancy that will happily take the rest of the retainer too.
You keep the margin
Agencies resell accessibility audits for €400–€900 per site. Your cost is a fraction of one audit.
You keep it recurring
Sites regress with every release. Monthly re-scans turn a one-off audit into a retainer line item.
Three steps, about three minutes
No integration, no code on your client's site, nothing for them to install.
STEP 01
Paste the URL
We crawl a representative sample of pages — home, a product or service page, a form — in a real browser at desktop resolution, dismissing cookie banners so the content underneath is actually tested.
STEP 02
We test against EN 301 549
Industry-standard rule sets mapped to EN 301 549 and WCAG 2.1 AA. Every finding is a confirmed rule failure with the offending element captured — not a guess, and not a score pulled out of thin air.
STEP 03
You send the report
A PDF in your agency's name, with your logo. Findings ranked by severity, each with plain-English impact, a concrete fix, and an effort estimate you can turn straight into a quote.
Written to be forwarded, not decoded
Free checkers hand you a wall of rule IDs — useless in a client meeting. Every finding in an EN549 report answers the three questions a client actually asks.
- What does this do to my customers? Plain English, no jargon. "Icon-only buttons are announced as 'button' with no indication of what they do."
- How do we fix it? The specific change, not a link to a 40-page spec.
- What will it cost? An effort estimate per issue, so you can quote the remediation on the same call.
- Where is it? Exact pages, CSS selectors and the offending markup, so your developer starts fixing instead of hunting.
Also included
- Accessibility statement draft — the Act expects one published
- Monthly re-scan with a diff: what regressed since last month
- White-label: your logo, agency name and colours
- Priority summary table you can paste into a proposal
Reports are generated as HTML and print-ready A4 PDF.
Priced per portfolio, not per seat
One audit resold to one client covers the year. Cancel any time; monthly billing.
Starter
€79/month
For small studios testing the water with a handful of clients.
- 5 sites
- Monthly re-scan
- PDF + HTML reports
- Accessibility statement draft
- Email support
Agency
€199/month
For agencies with a client portfolio to keep compliant and billable.
- 25 sites
- Weekly re-scan
- White-label reports
- Regression diffs
- Priority support
Studio
€399/month
For larger shops running accessibility as a productised service line.
- 100 sites
- Daily re-scan
- White-label + custom domain
- API access
- Onboarding call
Prices exclude VAT. EU business customers are invoiced under the reverse charge mechanism with a valid VAT number.
Straight answers
Does an automated scan make my client compliant?
No, and we will never claim it does. Automated testing reliably settles roughly a third of WCAG success criteria. It is very good at what it covers — missing alternative text, unlabelled controls, contrast failures, structural errors — and everything we report is a confirmed failure, not a suspicion. But it cannot judge whether alt text is meaningful, whether keyboard order makes sense, or whether an error message is understandable. A clean EN549 report means the machine-detectable barriers are gone. Full conformance still needs manual testing, and our reports say so on the page your client reads.
Are companies actually being fined?
Not yet, as far as anyone can verify publicly. Obligations took effect in June 2025 and early enforcement has focused on complaints, corrective-action notices and market surveillance rather than penalties. We think selling on fear is both dishonest and fragile. The real reason agencies buy this is simpler: clients are asking the question now, and "we don't know" is a bad answer when a competitor has a report ready.
Which of my clients does the Accessibility Act even apply to?
Broadly: e-commerce, banking, transport, telecoms and e-book services offered to EU consumers — including businesses based outside the EU that sell into it. Microenterprises providing services (fewer than 10 staff and under €2m turnover) are exempt from several obligations. Your mid-sized clients are the ones who need this. Scope depends on national implementing law; the report is a technical assessment, not a legal opinion.
Can I put my own branding on it?
Yes, on Agency and Studio plans. Your logo, agency name and colours; no EN549 branding anywhere in the document. Most agencies present it as their own audit service, which is exactly what we built it for.
Do you fix the issues too?
No. We find, prioritise and document — you fix, and you bill for it. We are deliberately not competing with you for the remediation work, which is the profitable half.
What about overlay widgets?
We don't sell one and we'd advise against them. Accessibility overlays have a poor reputation among disabled users and have not reliably prevented complaints. Fixing the underlying markup is slower, cheaper over time, and actually works.
Pick your least accessible client. Let's find out.
Send one URL and we'll return the full report — the same one your clients would receive. No account, no card, no call.
We use the address you give us only to send this report and to reply to you. Nothing else, and we don't pass it on. Prefer email? Write to hello@en549.eu.