Web Accessibility Directive

The Directive on the accessibility of websites and mobile applications also known as Directive (EU) 2016/2102 was adopted by the EU in 2016. This only applies to public sector bodies, but the member states of the EU needed to turn this legislation into national law by 2018. The goal was to ensure that all public sector organizations were accessible for the 80 million people with disabilities in the EU.
This EU Directive gave each member state until September 23 2018 to be transposed into national legislation. Each member country is responsible for implementing national legislation that conforms.
Contents.
The Directive does the following:
Timeline.
The EU's new European Accessibility Act complements the Web Accessibility Directive and applies to the private sector, thus impacting a much larger number of people. 