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Accessibility law in Denmark: are you provably compliant?

Denmark sets no statutory fine ceiling, but operates a hard stepped mechanism: a påbud (binding remediation order) that, if ignored, escalates to a sales ban, for a web shop effectively exclusion from the Danish market.

  • Law: Act on accessibility requirements for products and services (tilgængelighedsloven, Act No. 801/2022). EAA transposition
  • In force: Act of June 2022, one of the few member states to transpose on time; applicable since 28 June 2025.
  • Standard: WCAG 2.1 AA / EN 301 549

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Enforcement: what's happening now

Supervision is divided by sector; for web shops and products, inspections are carried out by Sikkerhedsstyrelsen (merged into the Erhvervsstyrelsen as of January 2026), which published concrete guidance for web shops as early as December 2024. The model is stepped: first a påbud with a remediation deadline, then a sales stop or market withdrawal, and ultimately referral to the police for court-imposed fines. As of mid-2026 no confirmed fine case yet, but supervision is prepared and operational, with active guidance.

In the 2024 monitoring period (1 Jan-1 Sep) the Danish Agency for Digitisation ran 240 simplified checks, of which 140 were escalated to supervision cases over formal accessibility-statement breaches; from September 2024 evaluation follows the full EN 301 549 v3.2.1 and sanctions are applied more broadly from 2025. Overordnede resultater. Digitaliseringsstyrelsen (tilsyn webtilgængelighed)

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Selling to here from abroad?

The European Accessibility Act is market-based: if you sell products or services to consumers in this country, it applies to you, even if your business is established outside the EU.

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Why this matters

Accessibility isn't a checkbox for a regulator, it decides whether roughly 1 in 6 people (WHO) can use your site at all. For them, an inaccessible store isn't a minor annoyance but a closed door. Fix the error in your own code and you remove that barrier and make your site cleaner for search engines, the same fix, double the gain.

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Sources: Retsinformation. LOV nr. 801 af 07/06/2022, tilgængelighedsloven (primaire wettekst) · Sikkerhedsstyrelsen. Sikkerhedsstyrelsens kontrol (controlemodel: påbud, verkoopverbod, politieaangifte) · Sikkerhedsstyrelsen. Tilgængelighed for e-handelstjenester (scope webshops, WCAG 2.1)

This is information and tooling, not legal advice.

Facts last verified: June 2026

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