WEB ACCESSIBILITY GRANT SCHEME | PROSPECTUS
What is the Web Accessibility Grant Scheme?
Are you prepared for the new European Accessibility Act (EAA)?
This Grant Scheme is a new investment funding initiative designed to help businesses who have completed our Digital that Delivers Programme to bring their websites into compliance with the European Accessibility Act, which comes into effect in June 2025. It will support you in upgrading your website to be inclusive and accessible to all potential visitors. What’s included? You will be provided with: 1. Investment Grant Funding – this Scheme is 100% subsidised* to allow you to upgrade your website to comply with new digital accessibility standards, enabling you to engage with more visitors. 2. One-to-One Support – technical expertise and guidance to help you to upgrade your website and digital content. 3. Free Access to Learning – to build the skills of your team. Dedicated training on our new online platform learniFI, including the benefits of digital accessibility and how to maintain it in the future. 4. Free Consultancy Review – of your booking system to ensure that it’s optimised for performance and providing you with quality data, ensuring you can make informed data-driven decisions for your business.
Making your website accessible to everyone is no longer a nice-to-have option. New EU legislation means that Irish businesses need to up their game to ensure inclusivity and compliance. Websites need to meet a set of accessibility requirements with the primary goal of ensuring that online experiences, such as booking and browsing, are usable by visitors of all abilities through a “design for all” approach. Many Irish businesses will be legally required to comply with this new legislation, which comes into effect in June 2025. Whilst microenterprises may be exempt under the current guidelines, Fáilte Ireland wants to support all visitor experience businesses, regardless of size, by offering funding to make their websites fully accessible and inclusive for all users. Get ahead of the legislation, avail of this fully subsidised programme now to make your website accessible, and reap the benefits!
Did you know? Websites that are not accessible are missing out by excluding a significant section of their potential customer base. ▶ 16% of the global
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population live with a disability, from ageing eyes to a physical disability (source: W.H.O. 2023) ▶ 71% of users with a disability leave a website early due to difficulty using it (source: Click-Away Pound Survey 2020) ▶ 96% of websites were
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non-compliant in 2023, with 83% of web pages having colour contrast issues (source: WebAIM 2023)
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