{"id":115,"date":"2025-05-07T13:59:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T13:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/nordic-accessibility\/?p=115"},"modified":"2025-08-27T13:03:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:03:34","slug":"nordic-accessibility-community-group-en-301-549-vs-wcag-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/nordic-accessibility\/2025\/05\/07\/nordic-accessibility-community-group-en-301-549-vs-wcag-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Nordic Accessibility Community Group: \u201cEN 301 549 vs WCAG\u201d | May"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Participants<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Erik Gustafsson Spagnoli (taking notes), Umut Gultekin, Christer Janzon, Miia Kirsi, Robin Liendeborg, P\u00e4r Lanner\u00f6, Anna-Liisa Mattila, Simo Hellsten, Nadia T\u00f6rnroos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Notes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>Next meeting Wednesday, June 4\u22c514:00 \u2013 14:50.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Miia saw another table with additional monitoring agencies she will add to the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Nordic-Accessibility-Community-Group\/working-with-EN-301-549\/blob\/main\/monitoring-agencies-information.md\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Github monitoring agency table<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Slack discussion regarding a talk at a conference where E-commerce union representant was claiming they have an agreement with the government that no fines will be delivered. Investigation further to the claim is ongoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">E-books<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Finland will have a meeting next week with authorities and actors on the market for discussing E-book metadata. W3C draft publication published for E-books, Miia will update the information on Github for <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Nordic-Accessibility-Community-Group\/working-with-EN-301-549\/blob\/main\/e-book-metadata-documentation.md\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">E-book metadata<\/a>. Metadata for e-books is quite well established so it is not very aligned with demands from the EAA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sweden are waiting with E-books since the consitution conflicts with changes. They do need to comply with the requirements anyways since Finland and other countries have the demands in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although audio books are not included, if you provide E-books you still need to comply. And if you sell services, products or subscriptions you are an e-commerce provider and need to be accessible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Disproportionate burden<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Exceptions for EAA, disproportionate burden. In Sweden they have published advice <a href=\"https:\/\/pts.se\/regelbibliotek\/oproportionerlig-borda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">F\u00f6reskrifter (PTSFS 2024:7) om kriterier f\u00f6r bed\u00f6mning av n\u00e4r ett tillg\u00e4nglighetskrav inte ska g\u00e4lla p\u00e5 grund av att det medf\u00f6r en oproportionerligt stor b\u00f6rda<\/a> that you need to have economics connected to it. Robin have looked into examples of disproportionate burden, mostly PDF documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SL said 10 hours per document to fix accessibility with a total of 11 million Swedish crowns. Was not accepted as disproportionate burden and they have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dn.se\/sverige\/sl-kan-fa-300-000-kronor-i-vite-for-kranglig-hemsida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">sanctioned with 300 000 SEK<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>French minister of culture calculated already published e-books cost in the ballpark of 200 million euros.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Courts reduced the fine for Pajala Bost\u00e4der, the court seems to have misunderstood the law. Ended up being reduced to 25 000 SEK from 1 100 000 SEK (<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.webperf.se\/upload\/dokument\/2023-03-09-digg-vitesforelaggande-pajalabostader.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">source<\/a>). Court decision: <em>4351-24 H\u00e4rn\u00f6sands f\u00f6rvaltningsr\u00e4tten<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Accessibility statements<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Examples out there:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verkkokauppa.com\/fi\/saavutettavuusseloste\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.verkkokauppa.com\/fi\/saavutettavuusseloste<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sanomapro.fi\/verkkokaupan-saavutettavuusseloste\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.sanomapro.fi\/verkkokaupan-saavutettavuusseloste\/<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ica.se\/kundservice\/underhall\/tillganglighet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.ica.se\/kundservice\/underhall\/tillganglighet\/<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisma.fi\/saavutettavuus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.prisma.fi\/saavutettavuus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Participants Erik Gustafsson Spagnoli (taking notes), Umut Gultekin, Christer Janzon, Miia Kirsi, Robin Liendeborg, P\u00e4r Lanner\u00f6, Anna-Liisa Mattila, Simo Hellsten, Nadia T\u00f6rnroos. Notes Next meeting Wednesday, June 4\u22c514:00 \u2013 14:50. Miia saw another table with additional monitoring agencies she will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/nordic-accessibility\/2025\/05\/07\/nordic-accessibility-community-group-en-301-549-vs-wcag-may\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21951,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meeting-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/nordic-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/nordic-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/nordic-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/nordic-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21951"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/nordic-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/nordic-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/nordic-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/nordic-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/nordic-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/nordic-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}