European Accessibility Act (EAA)
Learn what EAA compliance is and how to be compliant with the recent changes and requirements.
The European Accessibility Act is an EU-wide regulation that requires that digital products and services are accessible for people with disabilities. The main goal is to have consistent accessibility rules across Europe so everyone can access essential digital services, regardless of their abilities.
Of course, we at Unzer, are implementing this in our online content, products, and services.
How do we fulfill our and your obligations, when they come into force on 28 June 2025?
Integrating Eye-Able on various Unzer websites
Eye-Able is an accessibility solution for making online content easier for everyone to use—including people with disabilities. It typically offers a set of tools (such as screen readers, contrast adjustments, text sizing, and navigation aids) that users can activate directly on the website. To learn more, go to the Eye-Able official website.
We have integrated Eye-Able on various websites including the Unzer official site and the technical documentation.
Implementing WCAG 2.1 AA
WCAG 2.1 AA is an international standard that was developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for making web content more accessible to people with disabilities, including those with visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, language, learning, and neurological disabilities. To learn more, go to the WCAG 2.1 guidelines.
We are implementing it for the following integration options:
Please note that the following legacy integration options are not included in the current scope of accessibility features:
The background to this is that these are discontinued products that will no longer be developed and will not be maintained in the near future. They are therefore subject to the products covered by the legal exemption provision of BFSG Section 4.
Also, according to § 38 BFSG service providers can keep using existing products and contracts for their services until 27 June 2030, if they were already in use before 28 June 2025. Self-service terminals in use before 28 June 2025 may be used for similar services until they reach the end of their economic life, but not beyond fifteen years after they started operating. To read more, go to § 38 BFSG.
Plugins based on UI components and Payment Pages
Unzer payment plugins are based on either Payment Pages or UI Components.
- If the integration is based on Payment Page v1 or UI Components v1, it is exempt from the EAA requirements as described in the section above. To read more about exemptions, go to the Section 4 BFSG.
- If the integration is based on Payment Page v2 or UI Components v2, these are developed to ensure full compliance with the EAA regulation. You can simply migrate to the latest version of the plugin based on v2 that is already compliant.
To check the plugin integration and if it is already EAA compliant, you can go to the overview page of the respective plugin.