The EU Digital Services Act: an assessment in light of the rights of persons with disabilities

Anna Facchinetti (author)

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Title	The EU Digital Services Act: an assessment in light of the rights of persons with disabilities
DOI	https://doi.org/10.54103/milanoup.215.c461
Landing page	https://libri.unimi.it/index.php/milanoup/catalog/book/215
Publisher	Milano University Press
Published on	2025-07-28
Long abstract	The paper tackles the topic of accessibility of services and information for persons with disabilities in the digital domain, with focus on EU law. Its purpose is to assess whether Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 of 19 October 2022 on a Single Market for Digital Services and amending Directive 2000/31/EC (Digital Services Act) complies effectively with the accessibility obligations set forth in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), to which the European Union is a party since 2011. It is argued that the Digital Services Act – whose objective is, inter alia, to improve consumers’ protection and the transparency of platforms – fails to fully protect the rights of persons with disabilities insofar as it makes web accessibility the object of voluntary codes of conduct, rather than of obligations. The paper adopts the doctrinal legal methodology.
Page range	pp. 427-443

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The paper tackles the topic of accessibility of services and information for persons with disabilities in the digital domain, with focus on EU law. Its purpose is to assess whether Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 of 19 October 2022 on a Single Market for Digital Services and amending Directive 2000/31/EC (Digital Services Act) complies effectively with the accessibility obligations set forth in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), to which the European Union is a party since 2011. It is argued that the Digital Services Act – whose objective is, inter alia, to improve consumers’ protection and the transparency of platforms – fails to fully protect the rights of persons with disabilities insofar as it makes web accessibility the object of voluntary codes of conduct, rather than of obligations. The paper adopts the doctrinal legal methodology.