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EU legislation that has applied to covered products and services since 28 June 2025.
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The App Router's built-in announcer writes the new page name into an aria-live region on every client-side navigation. Focus stays where the unmounted link was, so the next Tab press starts again at the site header.
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The next EN 301 549 is finished, but nothing binds until the European Commission cites it. Until then V3.2.1 and WCAG 2.1 remain the text you are actually measured against, and the citation date has already moved.
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A scan of 149 top EU-domain sites found 64% failing Name, Role, Value. The readiness checklists on sale are for a standard that arrives about 17 months after the deadline these sites already missed.
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A vendor of European Accessibility Act tooling says most of his own market is exempt, and that the exemption covers the accessibility statement and documentation, not just the technical requirements.
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WCAG's four principles cross platforms intact. The markup, the gestures and the accessibility tree do not, and the W3C's mobile guidance is still an informative draft.
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