26/05/2026
The EU Accessibility Act is not coming. It's here. We've been preparing clients for 18 months.
Here are the 3 most expensive misconceptions we still hear weekly:
1. 'Our website is already WCAG 2.1 AA compliant.'
Compliance is not a one-time event. It's a discipline. New components ship every sprint. Without an audit cadence, you drift out of compliance within a quarter.
2. 'We'll add accessibility at the end.'
Retrofitting accessibility costs 4–7× more than designing it in. It also produces uglier interfaces. Accessibility is a constraint that improves design — like grid, like hierarchy.
3. 'It only matters for the public sector.'
B2C, e-commerce, banking, transport, e-books — the directive applies broadly. The fines are not theoretical.
We published a Playbook of Accessible Design for Business Owners. Free.
https://framcreative.com/accessibility