European Accessibility Act Readiness: WCAG Compliance Across 256,000 EU Websites
We analyzed 256,178 websites across 22 EU languages and cross-referenced them with WCAG, SEO, EEAT, and readability grades. Only 30% of EU websites pass WCAG accessibility — no better than the global average. Finland leads at 40.2%. Bulgaria trails at 16.5%. The North-South accessibility divide maps directly to digital infrastructure investment. With EAA fines reaching 100,000 EUR, two-thirds of EU websites face compliance risk.