The EAA is in enforcement and fintech is in scope. I design money products that meet it, because accessible is what clear looks like.
10+years designing digital products
8existing markets informed the Monefit design
≈15%fewer support contacts after the Lightyear help centre
The legal floor moved in 2025, and most products are still below it.
Level Access's EAA compliance overview is blunt: enforcement began on 28 June 2025, and banking, credit, payments and e-money services are all in scope. If your product takes money from EU consumers, accessibility stopped being optional a year ago.
WebAIM's Million study found detectable WCAG 2 failures on 95.9% of the top million homepages. These are not exotic bugs. They are contrast, labels and structure: the basics of clear design, missed.
A widget can't repair a confusing payment journey, and a findings report is a list of symptoms. Accessibility problems are design problems: focus order, error copy, form structure. They get fixed where they were made, in the product.
Accessibility holds up when it is part of the product design, not a patch at the end.
A 0% interest credit subscription designed 0-to-1 for Spain: onboarding, KYC-adjacent flows and dashboard, informed by evidence from 8 existing markets.
A search-first help centre across web and app that cut support contacts by roughly 15%. Self-service only works when everyone can find, read and finish the answer.
Kaspar has an excellent talent, he has a clear vision of what and how to do, and then he makes a perfect use of all the available ways to achieve the goal.
Accessibility as product quality, not a patch at the end.
What the European Accessibility Act asks of fintech product design.
Read note →9 min readWhy explicit, machine-readable interfaces are better for people too.
Read note →8 min readFailure, recovery and the states that decide whether people can continue.
Read note →No. I practise accessibility-aware product design: I design and repair the flows themselves against WCAG 2.1 AA, which Level Access notes EN 301 549 incorporates in full for EAA compliance. For formal certification, pair me with an audit firm. Design supports their review.
Fines vary by member state. Level Access's overview lists penalties up to roughly EUR 900,000 in Sweden and EUR 75,000 per violation in France. The quieter cost is a product that loses customers who can't read, tap or finish your flows.
Download my free EAA fintech checklist, or take the five-question bad-day audit on the fintech page. Prefer paper? The bad-day audit is also a free PDF. Fifteen minutes tells you whether you have a problem.
€300Live product teardown: one critical flow reviewed live, with the main issues and next steps identified together.
from €2,500Focused product project: one journey, launch, audit or product question with a defined outcome and scope.
€5,000 per monthEmbedded design support: ongoing senior product design inside your product and engineering team.
Prices exclude VAT. Scope and fee are agreed before anything begins. See how engagements are structured.
Fifteen minutes, no deck, no discovery workshop to book afterwards.
I look at your product before we talk, so the call opens on specifics instead of background.
I tell you what I would look at first, and say plainly whether this is work I am the right person for.
The approach, the scope and the fee if it makes sense to continue. No obligation either way.
Start with the free EAA fintech checklist. If your journeys need work, accessible fintech design is what I do: read how I work on the fintech page, then write to me.