Prepare your website for Romanian Law 232/2022
Evidence-backed accessibility audits for e-commerce and digital services preparing for the accessibility requirements in force across Romania since June 28, 2025.
Free scan available · WCAG 2.1 AA · EN 301 549 aligned · Built for EU agencies
Romania transposed the EAA through Law 232/2022
Legea nr. 232/2022is Romania's national transposition of the European Accessibility Act (Directive 2019/882). The accessibility requirements have been in force since June 28, 2025. For most digital services and e-commerce sites serving Romanian consumers, the website itself now needs to meet the underlying technical standard (EN 301 549 / WCAG 2.1 AA) — not just display a compliance badge or install an overlay widget.
Who is covered
E-commerce stores, banking and consumer financial services, electronic communications, passenger transport ticketing and information, audio-visual on-demand, e-books and reading services, and other consumer-facing digital services placed on the Romanian market.
What changed in 2025
Since June 28, 2025, covered services placed on the market or substantially updated must meet the accessibility requirements. Services already in operation get until 2030, but consumer complaints can trigger investigations at any time.
How enforcement tends to start
Across the EU, the typical pattern is complaint-driven market surveillance — consumers and disability advocacy organizations report inaccessible services, and authorities follow up. The reputational damage of a public complaint usually exceeds the fine itself.
Who is exempt
Micro-enterprises (under 10 employees and under 2 € million annual turnover or balance sheet) are exempt from the service requirements. The exemption is narrower than many assume — a 12-employee online shop is not exempt.
Three steps to real preparation, not a checkbox
The same workflow agencies use to prepare client sites in Germany, France, and the Netherlands — adapted for Romanian businesses preparing for Law 232/2022.
Free Scan
Up to 5 pages scanned automatically. Get a prioritized snapshot of accessibility issues, evidence blocks, and a personalized free-to-paid recommendation. Emailed within 24 hours.
Start a Free ScanAccessibility Audit
Up to 15 key pages reviewed. Prioritized findings with selectors, HTML snippets, screenshots, journey impact, owner suggestions, and a remediation roadmap with effort ranges. White-label ready.
Request an AuditMonthly Monitoring
Rescan up to 3 client sites monthly, with regression detection, verified-fix tracking, and branded reports your agency can forward without rewriting. Builds the evidence trail over time.
Set Up MonitoringMapped to the standards Law 232/2022 references
Romanian Law 232/2022, like other EU transpositions of the EAA, points to the harmonized European standard EN 301 549 as the primary path to demonstrating conformance. For websites, that primarily means WCAG 2.1 Level AA, plus the additional requirements that apply to web content.
Perceivable content
- Text alternatives for non-text content (images, icons, media)
- Captions and alternatives for audio and video
- Color contrast and visual presentation
- Resizable text, reflow, and orientation
Operable interface
- Full keyboard accessibility for navigation, forms, and interactive components
- Sufficient time, no traps, and no seizure-inducing content
- Focus visible, predictable, and logical
- Bypass blocks and accessible page structure
Understandable content
- Language declared and consistent
- Predictable navigation and consistent identification
- Form labels, error identification, and helpful suggestions
- Input assistance for legal, financial, and transactional steps
Robust implementation
- Valid name, role, and value for assistive technology
- ARIA used correctly, not as a band-aid
- Status messages exposed without focus changes
- Compatibility with current assistive technologies
Manual review is still required. Automated scanners reliably catch around 30-40% of WCAG issues. The rest — keyboard journey breakage, screen reader naming, focus management, semantic structure, and content clarity — needs a human pass. Our paid audits include operator review of every finding before publication and flag which criteria were automated versus human-verified, but a full manual conformance audit of every flow and authenticated state is out of scope unless specifically contracted.
Why a widget alone is not Law 232/2022 preparation
If you have looked at accessibility tools for the Romanian market, you have probably seen overlay widgets — JavaScript add-ons that promise to make any website "compliant" in 60 seconds. They are an attractive shortcut. They are also, on their own, a poor fit for Law 232/2022 and the broader EAA framework.
A runtime layer that does not change the underlying site
- Adds a JavaScript layer on top of the existing HTML. The HTML, ARIA, and content remain unchanged.
- Often interferes with users' existing assistive technology, forcing screen reader users to disable it.
- Cannot fix issues that depend on real content decisions: image descriptions, form labels, semantic structure, journey design.
- The accessibility community publishes the Overlay Fact Sheet documenting widely reported limitations, signed by hundreds of independent experts.
- Lawsuits in the EU and US continue to be filed against businesses that relied on overlays as their only accessibility approach.
Real evidence the underlying service can defend
- Identifies the actual barriers in the underlying HTML, ARIA, and content — what EN 301 549 actually points at.
- Produces a report with selectors, HTML snippets, screenshots, and prioritized remediation steps your developers can act on.
- Combines automated scanning with operator-led review of every finding before publication, so DOM-reachable issues get prioritised with honest scope.
- Builds an evidence trail over time — which findings were resolved, which regressed, and which remain open.
- Aligned with what authorities and disability advocacy organizations look for: the underlying service, not a button on top of it.
None of this means widgets cannot play a small supplemental role for personalization preferences (font size, contrast). They simply cannot be a stand-in for the underlying conformance work that Law 232/2022 and EN 301 549 are about.
See what an audit report actually looks like
A real, populated demo report — with severity-prioritized findings, evidence blocks, screenshots, journey impact, remediation guidance, and a roadmap your client's dev team can actually work from.
Honest scope
AccessiProof provides evidence-backed website accessibility audits, prioritized findings, and remediation guidance for the digital-service side of Romanian Law 232/2022. Law 232/2022 also covers physical products (e.g. self-service terminals, consumer electronics); those are outside our scope and need specialist product accessibility assessment.
Our reports are not legal advice, not certification, and not a formal conformance determination unless explicitly stated otherwise in writing. Compliance decisions remain the responsibility of the covered business, its legal counsel, and any relevant Romanian authorities (notably ANPC). Where authoritative determinations are required, we recommend involving qualified Romanian accessibility and legal professionals.
Where this page references EN 301 549 and WCAG 2.1 AA, we do so because they are the technical standards typically used to demonstrate conformance with the EAA-derived requirements in Law 232/2022 for digital services. They are not the only possible mechanism, and the broader legal picture is wider than any single technical pass/fail test.
Related EU accessibility frameworks
Every EU law in this space sits on the same technical spine. Use these pages to map your clients' obligations across Europe.
European Accessibility Act
The EU directive that underpins every national accessibility law below.
Read pageEU frameworkEN 301 549
The harmonised technical standard regulators cite as the conformance test.
Read pageEU frameworkWCAG 2.2
W3C success criteria at the heart of every EU accessibility rulebook.
Read pageNational lawGermany — BFSG
Barrierefreiheitsstärkungsgesetz: Germany's EAA transposition, in force since 28 June 2025.
Read pageNational lawFrance — RGAA & Article 47
Dual track: RGAA 4.1 for public bodies and Ordonnance 2023-859 for private e-commerce.
Read pageNational lawSpain — Ley 11/2023
RD 1112/2018 for public sector plus Ley 11/2023 and RD 193/2023 for private e-commerce.
Read pageNational lawItaly — D.Lgs. 82/2022
Italian EAA transposition layered on the Stanca Law (Legge 4/2004), supervised by AgID and AGCOM.
Read pageNational lawNetherlands — Toegankelijkheid
Besluit digitale toegankelijkheid for public bodies plus EAA-derived obligations for private services.
Read pageNational lawIreland — S.I. 636/2023
Irish EAA transposition, enforced by CCPC and sectoral regulators since June 2025.
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