EU Accessibility Act enforceable since Jun 2025

Find out what's actually broken before a lawyer does.

Curbcut scans your site against WCAG 2.1/2.2 AA — the standard behind the EU Accessibility Act and US ADA suits — and turns raw violations into a plain-English fix list. No overlay. No compliance theater.

Under 30 secondsNo credit card3 pages, free
Why this is landing on your desk now
What Germany can fine, per individual violation — several states go higher still
€100k
US web accessibility lawsuits filed in 2024
4,000+
EU countries covered — the Act has applied since June 2025
27
Staff and you’re in scope. The only exemption is under 10 staff AND under €2M turnover
10+

Sources: Directive (EU) 2019/882 and national implementing laws; US ADA Title III website and app filings, 2024. Figures describe the legal landscape, not your specific exposure — Curbcut does not provide legal advice.

The scan

Four steps, one honest report.

Every scan runs the same sequence, with the same limits, every time. Here is exactly what happens — including the parts most tools don't show you.

  1. 01
    Submit

    Paste your URL

    We crawl same-origin pages only, breadth-first, and stop at a hard cap. No unbounded crawl, no surprise bill, no wandering onto someone else’s domain.

    Free 3 pages · Paid 5 · Agency 20
  2. 02
    Scan

    Run against WCAG

    A real browser loads each page and runs axe-core against WCAG 2.1/2.2 AA, mapped to EN 301 549. We keep violations and the “needs manual review” items — and throw the passes away.

    axe-core 4.12.1 · WCAG 2.1/2.2 AA
  3. 03
    Score

    Get a risk score

    One number, worst issues first. The formula is bounded, published, and deliberately boring — a score is a way to prioritise, never a certificate.

    0–100 · four risk bands
  4. 04
    Fix

    Act, then watch

    The exact element, the rule it broke, and why it matters in plain English. Then we re-scan on a schedule and only email you when something actually regresses.

    Weekly or monthly re-scans
Why not overlays

An overlay can't fix what it can't see.

Accessibility overlays are scripts you paste into your page. They promise to detect and repair barriers automatically, at load time. Four structural reasons that doesn't hold up:

01

Your code stays broken

An overlay runs in the browser after your page loads. It never touches your source. The markup a developer maintains — and that every other tool, crawler, and integration reads — is exactly as broken as it was before you installed it.

02

It has to guess at meaning

Good alt text says what an image means here, in this context — whether it's a decorative flourish to skip or the only place a price appears. That is a judgment about intent. A script that never saw your intent cannot make it, so it fills the gap with a plausible-sounding guess.

03

It fights the tools people already use

People who rely on assistive technology have their own configured setup — screen readers, magnifiers, keyboard navigation. A script that reaches in at runtime and reassigns roles, focus, and labels is one more thing layered on top of a stack that was already working for them.

04

It gives you nothing to show

When someone asks what you've done about accessibility, the answer that holds up is a record: what was wrong, what you changed, when. A widget in your footer isn't evidence of remediation — it's evidence you bought a widget.

The curb-cut effect

Fixes built for one group end up helping everyone.

Cut a ramp into a kerb so a wheelchair can cross, and you also serve every pram, suitcase, delivery trolley and tired pair of legs that follows. Nobody planned that. It just falls out of fixing the real thing properly.

  • A form label a screen reader can announcealso gives someone with a tremor a bigger target to hit — the label becomes clickable, not just the checkbox
  • A contrast ratio that works for low visionalso works for anyone squinting at their phone in direct sunlight
stepramp
Built for one group. Now used by everyone — because someone changed the pavement, rather than painting a ramp onto it.

Curbcut will never ship an overlay.

Not in a later version. Not as an upsell. We find the real issues, explain them in plain English, and hand them to whoever fixes your code.

Pricing

One domain, free, while we're in early access.

No card, no trial countdown, no plan to choose. We're still learning what this is worth to people — so for now you get the whole thing, and if you need more than one domain we'll work it out together.

Early access

One domain

Free  while we're in early access
  • 1 domain, fully monitored
  • Every issue, in plain English — not just the top 3
  • Downloadable PDF report
  • Scheduled re-scans, alerts only when something breaks
  • Accessibility statement template
Claim your free domain

Free for the early-access period. If we ever start charging for it, you'll hear it from us first — not from a card that got billed.

More than one domain

Talk to us
  • Agencies with a client book
  • Brands running several storefronts
  • White-label reports, bulk domains
  • Priced by hand, honestly
Talk to us

You'll reach the person who built this. We'll tell you if we're a bad fit.