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Accessibility statement generator for online shops

Updated 10 October 2026 · Free, no sign-up · Nothing you type leaves your browser

Since 28 June 2025, an online shop covered by the European Accessibility Act has to publish information on how accessible it is. In Germany, Annex 3 of the BFSG lists what that statement must contain: what the service is, how it is used, how it meets the requirements, and the market surveillance authority.

Step 1 checks, in four questions, whether the German act applies to your shop. Step 2 writes the statement from your answers, ready to paste into your shop. Selling from another EU country? Choose "another country" for the authority and the statement cites the EAA itself.

Step 1: Does the BFSG apply to your shop?

Can consumers place orders in your shop?

Even if you mostly sell to businesses: if a private person can complete checkout, the answer is yes.

How many people does your company employ?

Part-timers count pro rata and agency staff count; apprentices do not.

Is your annual turnover or balance sheet total €2 million or less?

One of the two at or under €2 million is enough.

Do you also sell devices such as computers, smartphones, e-readers or payment terminals?

Step 2: Your details

Shop and company
What you sell and how

For example: tea and tea accessories. The sentence then reads "… where consumers can buy tea and tea accessories."

Accessibility status

What is in place? Tick only what you have checked.

Market surveillance authority

Germany's is the Länder's joint market surveillance body for accessibility (MLBF) in Magdeburg. The address comes from several 2026 publications; check it on mlbf-barrierefrei.de before you publish. In other EU countries, the authority is named in the national law implementing the EAA.

Your statement

Where the statement goes

On its own page, reachable from every page of the shop. The usual place is an "Accessibility" link in the footer, next to the legal notice and privacy policy.

The page itself must be accessible. The HTML holds only headings, paragraphs and lists, so it takes on your theme's styling. Update the statement, and its date, whenever the shop changes in a way that matters.

What the statement does not do

It meets the duty to inform. The main duty is the shop itself, which has to meet the accessibility requirements. A statement that says "partly" and names the gaps is honest; a shop that never fixes them is still exposed.

For a first picture, WAVE, Lighthouse or our free check list the problems on a page in minutes. Automated tools find roughly a third of barriers; the rest takes a person.

Questions

Does the statement really have to name an authority?

In Germany, yes: Annex 3 No. 1(d) BFSG asks for the competent market surveillance authority. That is a German addition to the directive and the item most often left out.

We are a micro-enterprise. Do we need one?

Not for the shop as a service. Fewer than ten staff and no more than €2 million turnover or balance sheet total means the exemption applies, and it has no end date.

What happens to what I type?

Nothing. The statement is built in your browser. The form is kept in your browser only, so closing the tab does not lose it; "Clear the form" deletes it.

Not legal advice. The generator writes text from your answers. Whether it fits your shop, and whether your answers are true, is for you or your lawyer to check. Facts as of 10 October 2026. Sources: BFSG § 1(3), § 2 No. 17, § 3(3), § 37 and Annex 3; BFSGV; Directive (EU) 2019/882, Annex V.

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