Digital Accessibility and the EAA: Ensuring Compliance by June 28

The European Accessibility Act (EAA) is rapidly approaching its enforcement date of June 28, 2025. Is your business ready?

This groundbreaking legislation will mandate that websites, apps, and digital kiosks across the European Union (EU) meet accessibility standards for people with disabilities. Failure to comply could result in hefty fines. Now is the time to prepare!

Join our expert-led webinar to understand the steps you need to take to ensure compliance before the deadline. Learn how to avoid costly mistakes, gain insights into penalties and risks, and find out how to implement changes in your digital infrastructure that will not only protect you legally but also make your brand more inclusive, expand your market reach, and enhance your customer experience.

In this webinar, you will:

• Understand the European Accessibility Act: Get a detailed overview of the EAA
• Learn How EAA Affects Your Business: Discover how the act impacts organizations that sell products and services to the EU, whether you are based within the EU or not.
• Explore the Risks: Gain insight into the potential fines, penalties, and legal risks associated with non-compliance.
• Compliance Preparation: Learn actionable steps to audit your digital products, create an accessibility improvement plan, train your staff, and document your compliance efforts.
• Understand the Disproportionate Burden Exception: Find out what exceptions apply, especially for small businesses, and how to assess whether the compliance burden is too heavy.
• Explore the Benefits of EAA Compliance: Discover how meeting the EAA requirements can increase your market reach, build an inclusive brand, and reduce the risk of lawsuits or fines.
  
  

Why Should You Attend?

By understanding and preparing for this new law, your company can avoid the costly mistakes that may come with last-minute compliance efforts. This webinar will give you the tools you need to prepare now, ensuring that your digital presence is accessible to all, and that you meet the necessary regulations by the June 2025 deadline.

Who Should Attend?

• Business owners and leaders of companies offering products or services to the EU
• Compliance officers, legal teams, and IT professionals responsible for digital accessibility
• Anyone involved in the design, development, and management of digital products, websites, and apps
• Small businesses looking to understand the scope of the “undue burden” exception
  
  

Register today!

Featured Speakers

ALLISON C. BELAN is the Director for Strategic Innovation and Services  at Duke University Press, publisher of scholarly journals and books in the humanities, social sciences, and humanities. Allison works to align all aspects of the Press's digital publishing strategy and operations to build a digital presence that connects the world to Duke University Press's scholarship. She articulates the Press's innovation strategies and leads key projects to execute them. Allison also manages the Scholarly Publishing Collective and Project Euclid, two initiatives that provide publishing infrastructure to other non-profit publishers. 

RICK JOHNSON is the Vice President of Solutions Engineering & Accessibility, and one of the founders of VitalSource Technologies, LLC. VitalSource is the maker of Bookshelf®, the most widely used platform for delivery of electronic materials in the world.  At VitalSource, Rick manages the strategic solutions of the fast growing platform, guiding the architecture, and implementation of its clients and systems, and is the executive sponsor for all accessibility initiatives across the diverse platform. Prior to VitalSource, Rick spent more than 12 years with Apple Computer, Inc.

Rick's career has been focused on bringing together his three passions: technology, publishing, and education.  He is a frequent speaker on electronic textbooks, their integration into an institutional environment, and how the accessibility needs of individual students can best be accommodated in their delivery. He has served on multiple committees addressing the needs around delivering accessible content to students, was a member of the working groups responsible for version 2 and version 3 of the EPUB standard, currently serves on the board of directors for 1EdTech (formerly IMS Global) and Benetech, and is the co-inventor of three domestic and international patents dealing with electronic books and their distribution. Rick also serves on the board of directors for several non-profit ministries.

GREGORIO PELLEGRINO, Chief Accessibility Officer at Fondazione LIA, is an Italian software engineer with a strong focus on improving digital accessibility for visually impaired individuals. His expertise is reflected in his co-editing of key industry documents, such as W3C EPUB Accessibility 1.1, the Accessibility Metadata Display Guide for Digital Publications 2.0, and the EPUB Accessibility - EU Accessibility Act Mapping. He is also technical leader of the DAISY Consortium's "Accessible EPUB from InDesign Expert Group," working with Adobe to enhance the accessibility of EPUBs exported from InDesign. Pellegrino's work with organizations like W3C, DAISY, and EDItEUR helps shape global accessibility standards. Through his consulting, training, and standards development efforts, he continues to support more inclusive reading experiences in digital publishing.

MODERATED BY Brooke Horn, BISG Operations Manager