Meeting the standard before a tender or an audit forces the timetable.
Industrial accessibility compliance against EN 301 549 and WCAG 2.1 AA for manufacturer, distributor and engineering websites, brought current before a procurement questionnaire, a public-sector tender or a complaint sets the deadline for you. Which obligations apply to your organisation is a determination for your legal counsel; our part is the audit, the remediation and the evidence behind both.
Industrial sites tend to fail on a consistent set of issues: colour contrast in a palette chosen before anyone checked it, interactive elements that cannot be reached with a keyboard, and form errors announced only by colour. The pattern is predictable because the components causing it are shared across templates rather than unique to one page.
Datasheets, installation manuals, certificates and safety documentation are usually the largest gap on a technical website and the one least often scoped. A library of untagged PDFs can pass an automated page scan while remaining unusable with a screen reader, so we assess it as a workstream in its own right with its own timeline.
Specification tables, comparison grids and product selectors carry meaning through layout and colour. A table marked up as a grid of unlabelled cells conveys little to assistive technology, and a configurator built on a third-party widget frequently loses keyboard operability altogether. Both need structural correction rather than alternative text.
Accessibility obligations vary by the size of the organisation, the markets it sells into and whether the audience is consumer or business. We work to the scope your legal and compliance team sets rather than assuming it, and we do not offer a compliance guarantee: conformance is a statement your organisation makes, supported by evidence we help produce.
Sites that were remediated once and failed again a year later were usually fixed page by page. When the correction lives in the design system and the component code instead, it holds as editors add pages, because the accessible behaviour is the default the template provides rather than something each author has to remember.
An audit against the standard your team has identified, findings ranked by real impact, remediation carried out at design-system level, retesting of everything changed, and written documentation of what was found and what was done. See industrial website accessibility for the same work as a planned build requirement.
Code Industrial is the industrial B2B practice of Code Barcelona, an agency building corporate websites and digital platforms since 2015. The same strategy, design and engineering team works on every industrial project, from the first scoping session through to life after launch.
The typical failure differs with what the site carries. Industrial accessibility compliance starts from that content.
What comes up when a manufacturer or distributor addresses accessibility ahead of a deadline.
It covers the website templates, the interactive tools such as product selectors and configurators, the commercial journeys including enquiry and ordering, and the document library attached to them. On a technical B2B estate the documents are usually the largest part of the work. The exact scope is set with your compliance team, since the obligations that apply depend on your organisation and the markets it serves.
That is a question for your legal counsel rather than for us. Broadly, the EAA has applied since 28 June 2025 to organisations above certain size and turnover thresholds serving EU consumers, with EN 301 549 as the reference standard. Business-to-business sales are treated differently from consumer sales, and many industrial manufacturers sit close to that line, so the determination needs advice on your specific circumstances.
No, and we would treat any such guarantee with caution. Conformance is a statement your organisation makes about its own properties, and it depends on content published after our work as much as on the work itself. What we provide is testing against a named standard, remediation of what that testing finds, and documented evidence your compliance team can rely on when making its own statement.
It is scoped separately, because remediating documents is a different kind of work from correcting templates. We assess volume, which documents are in demand, and which are reachable from product pages or external links. In most estates a minority of documents accounts for most of the traffic, so remediating that set first delivers most of the practical benefit while the rest is worked through.
In most cases, yes. Contrast, heading structure, focus handling, keyboard operability and form errors can usually be corrected in place within the existing templates. A rebuild becomes the sensible recommendation when the platform depends on third-party components that cannot be made operable, or when the markup is generated in a way that leaves no place to apply the correction.
Manually, along the full journey rather than screen by screen. A selector can pass a static scan on each step and still trap keyboard focus when a filter panel opens, or fail to announce that results have changed. We work through the tool with a keyboard alone and with a screen reader, then test the same path again after the corrections are applied.
No. That statement is issued by your organisation, normally by the compliance or legal function. We supply the audit findings, the record of remediation completed, the testing evidence against EN 301 549 or WCAG 2.1 AA, and any residual items with their justification, which is the material a team needs to write and defend the statement itself.
Three things tend to hold it: accessible defaults built into the components so editors inherit them, a short authoring checklist covering the decisions still left to a person such as alternative text and link wording, and periodic re-testing built into the maintenance cycle. See industrial website support for how that ongoing check is run.
Accessibility compliance frequently connects to these related problems.
A tender clause, an audit finding, or an estate no one has checked. Tell us the standard you are working to and we will tell you how we would approach the industrial accessibility compliance work.