Subject files - accessibility of the websites and mobile applications of public sector bodies - Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

Over 80 million EU citizens who have disability (medical/due to age) are prevented from accessing data/services on the Internet. Many websites lack adequately adapted content for the blind, the deaf and the hard of hearing as well as for those with low vision and with functional disabilities. To meet the needs of those EU citizens, the co-legislators agreed in 2016 on the first EU-wide rules to make public sector bodies' websites and mobile applications accessible for people with disabilities.