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The European Accessibility Act (EAA) came into force on 28th June this year. But what’s happened since June?
On 7 July 2025, two visual-impairment advocacy groups (apiDV and Droit Pluriel), with legal support from the collective Intérêt à Agir, issued formal warnings to four large French retailers Auchan, Carrefour, E. Leclerc, and Picard Surgelés for failing to make their online supermarket services fully accessible.
If the retailers haven’t fully complied by 1 September 2025, the associations plan to take legal action to enforce their obligation.
Vueling Airlines
Meanwhile last year in 2024, airline Vueling in Spain was fined €90,000 in for failing to make their website accessible. They were fined even before the EAA came into force, demonstrating that accessibility enforcement isn’t just theoretical, the EAA will only make expectations even clearer.
Fashion Nova was fined millions
Fashion Nova in the US was fined $5,150,000, individuals who are legally blind and attempted to access the Fashion Nova using screen reading software now may be eligible to submit a claim.
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Chris