{"id":682,"date":"2025-07-02T20:22:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T18:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/athenaconsultancy.eu\/?p=682"},"modified":"2025-07-02T20:22:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T18:22:57","slug":"the-european-accessibility-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/athenaconsultancy.eu\/?p=682","title":{"rendered":"The European Accessibility Act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I get asked a lot what the <a href=\"https:\/\/eur-lex.europa.eu\/legal-content\/EN\/TXT\/PDF\/?uri=CELEX:32019L0882\">European Accessibility Act<\/a> means for audiovisual content, so I pulled together some notes in this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apptek.ai\/post\/the-european-accessibility-act-a-new-era-for-digital-inclusivity-and-accountability-for-digital-media-stakeholders\">blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TL;DR: Content &#8220;published&#8221; on a &#8220;website&#8221; (i.e. delivered over IP) needs to be accessible. This affects streaming platforms, educational institutions and anyone offering online video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s make digital inclusion a reality, not just a requirement!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"896\" height=\"894\" src=\"https:\/\/athenaconsultancy.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-02-at-21.22.17.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/athenaconsultancy.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-02-at-21.22.17.png 896w, https:\/\/athenaconsultancy.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-02-at-21.22.17-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/athenaconsultancy.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-02-at-21.22.17-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/athenaconsultancy.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-02-at-21.22.17-768x766.png 768w, https:\/\/athenaconsultancy.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-02-at-21.22.17-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get asked a lot what the European Accessibility Act means for audiovisual content, so I pulled together some notes in this blog post. TL;DR: Content &#8220;published&#8221; on a &#8220;website&#8221; (i.e. delivered over IP) needs to be accessible. This affects streaming platforms, educational institutions and anyone offering online video. Let&#8217;s make digital inclusion a reality, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/athenaconsultancy.eu\/?p=682\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The European Accessibility Act&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/athenaconsultancy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/athenaconsultancy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/athenaconsultancy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athenaconsultancy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athenaconsultancy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/athenaconsultancy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":684,"href":"https:\/\/athenaconsultancy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions\/684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/athenaconsultancy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athenaconsultancy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athenaconsultancy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}