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Accessibility law in Finland: are you provably compliant?

Finland has no fixed fine ceiling: Traficom attaches an uhkasakko (penalty payment) to a binding remediation order, set case by case and accumulating as long as non-compliance persists, with no cap, potentially more expensive than a fixed fine.

  • Law: Act on the accessibility requirements for certain products (102/2023) + Act on the Provision of Digital Services (306/2019, as amended). EAA transposition
  • In force: Acts in force since 1 February 2023, past the EU deadline; applicable since 28 June 2025.
  • Standard: WCAG 2.1 AA / EN 301 549

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Enforcement: what's happening now

Since 1 January 2025 all accessibility supervision is centralised at Traficom, an experienced regulator with a demonstrable track record: 897 websites and apps of 615 organisations inspected in 2020-2024. Its toolkit: binding orders, the penalty payment (uhkasakko) as a last resort, a mandatory independent audit at the provider's expense, and market removal for products. Since 28 June 2025 private web shops also fall under this supervision; as of mid-2026 no publicly confirmed EAA penalty payments, supervision is in its guidance and inspection phase.

Digital accessibility supervision sat with the Southern Finland AVI monitoring unit until end-2024, transferred to Traficom on 1 January 2025 and to the new Licensing and Supervision Authority (LVV) on 1 January 2026; from June 2025 the requirements expanded to private services such as e-shops, e-books and parts of banking and transport services. Saavutettavuutta tarkastettu lähes 900 digipalvelusta. Traficom

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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: Finlex. Laki eräiden tuotteiden esteettömyysvaatimuksista (102/2023) · Traficom. Frequently asked questions about new accessibility requirements · Traficom. Saavutettavuutta tarkastettu lähes 900 digipalvelusta (track record 2020-2024)

This is information and tooling, not legal advice.

Facts last verified: June 2026

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