WCAG 2.2, BFSG, and the EU Accessibility Act: the 2026 compliance stack for WordPress
WCAG 2.2 was first published as a W3C Recommendation on 2023-10-05; the current published version on www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/ is dated 2024-12-12. The EU Accessibility Act (Directive 2019/882) applies from 2025-06-28. Germany's Barrierefreiheitsstärkungsgesetz transposes it into federal law on the same date. This article is the implementation map for a WordPress site in 2026.