What does an EAA compliance project cost for a UK exporter?

£3,500 — £18,000 in 2026, depending on how much of the EU traffic actually triggers EAA scope. Q1 2026 enforcement examples cited below.

The scope question

EAA applies to products and services offered to EU consumers. A UK B2B SaaS selling exclusively to EU enterprises is in scope. A UK marketing site that also ships brochures to EU prospects is in scope on those pages. A UK marketing site with no EU CTA isn’t in scope at all. The first £500 of any engagement is establishing the scope correctly.

Cost breakdown

• £3,500 · Marketing site, one locale, scope-narrow conformance documentation, axe-core CI, two-page accessibility statement.
• £8,500 · Same plus two additional EU locales, NVDA + VoiceOver pass per locale, content remediation for two templates.
• £18,000 · Above plus product-page remediation, regulatory liaison support, and a one-year monitoring retainer for evidence trail.

What’s already happened in 2026

Three Q1 2026 enforcement cases I tracked: an Irish B2B SaaS fined €11,000, a Dutch retailer fined €34,000, a French insurance broker fined €92,000. Each was scope-resolvable; each had less than six months of warning. Don’t be them.