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The guide is a comprehensive document designed to help modernise and harmonise accessibility practices across the entire French railway network to maximise the independence of persons with disabilities.

AccessibleEU’s guide offers insight on cognitive accessibility and its related concepts. It provides existing knowledge and information on the main barriers.

Through this Act, deafblind persons gain the legally guaranteed right to communication support, including access to qualified interpreters, information, public services, education, health and participation in public life.

The guidelines aim to establish a shared understanding of how accessibility norms should be applied in typical business scenarios, focusing on aspects that are not already covered by regulatory or explanatory documents.

Inclusion Europe’s Inclusion Indicators 2025 report highlights that many European countries, despite having signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, still deny persons with intellectual disabilities their rights.

DIGITAL EUROPE, on behalf of AccessibleEU Centre, is conducting a study on how European businesses plan, resource and deliver accessibility. Help us shape the future of accessibility in business by completing our survey! Responses will be kept anonymous.

The Centre has organised more than 250 training and awareness-raising events that have reached all 27 EU Member States, and its professional community now has 5,800 members, reflecting a growing commitment to a more accessible Europe.

Zaragoza (Spain) has been awarded the Access City Award 2026 in recognition of its exceptional efforts to create an accessible and inclusive urban environment for people with disabilities.

The report exposes serious concerns: some airlines continue to violate EU rules by limiting assistance, denying assistance dogs, requiring medical forms, or charging for support.