@ariada-org/penalty-estimator

EAA / national-law penalty exposure estimator — per-jurisdiction administrative-fine rate-cards for accessibility violations.

Open source under EUPL-1.2.

Not legal advice. This is an empirical risk-modelling tool to inform remediation prioritisation. Penalty levels are statutory maxima per cited law; actual enforcement varies widely. Always consult counsel before relying on figures for budgeting.

What this package does

Given a violation list + a target jurisdiction, returns an estimated penalty-exposure range in EUR. Rate-cards model the transposition of Directive (EU) 2019/882 (European Accessibility Act) plus adjacent consumer-protection laws.

Supported jurisdictions

| Code | Country | Primary law | | ---- | -------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | SE | Sweden | Lag 2018:1937 (DOS-lagen) + Marknadsföringslagen | | NO | Norway | Likestillings- og diskrimineringsloven §17 + tilgjengelighetsforskriften | | DK | Denmark | Lov om tilgængelighed (LBK 692/2020) | | FI | Finland | Saavutettavuuslaki 306/2019 | | DE | Germany | Barrierefreiheitsstärkungsgesetz (BFSG, 2021) + UWG | | FR | France | Loi 2005-102 art. 47 + Décret 2019-768 | | NL | Netherlands | Tijdelijk besluit digitale toegankelijkheid overheid | | AT | Austria | WZG 2020 + Konsumentenschutzgesetz | | CH | Switzerland | BehiG (non-EU, included for completeness) | | UK | United Kingdom | Equality Act 2010 + EHRC enforcement | | EU | EU aggregate | DSA art. 35 + UCPD 2005/29 ceiling |

Install

npm install @ariada-org/penalty-estimator

Quick start

import {
  estimatePenalty,
  listJurisdictions,
} from "@ariada-org/penalty-estimator";
import type { Violation } from "@ariada-org/evidence-emitter";

const violations: Violation[] = [
  /* axe-core results normalized to Violation shape */
];

const estimate = estimatePenalty(violations, "SE");

console.log(estimate.maxPenaltyEur, estimate.expectedRiskEur);
console.log(estimate.lawReferences);
console.log(estimate.authority);
// estimate.explanation — per-violation breakdown lines (human-readable)

Sector multipliers (banking, e-commerce) are applied automatically when Violation.eaaAnnexI includes 'I.3' (e-commerce) or 'I.4' (banking). Override the empirical enforcementFactor (or pass annualTurnoverEur for DSA-style turnover scaling) via the optional third argument:

const dsa = estimatePenalty(violations, "EU", {
  annualTurnoverEur: 250_000_000,
  enforcementFactor: 0.5,
});

Standards

• Directive (EU) 2019/882 (EAA)
• Directive 2005/29 (UCPD)

License

EUPL-1.2. See NOTICE for the patent peace pledge.

Part of the Ariada OSS platform

This package is one component of the open-core Ariada accessibility-compliance platform. See ariada.org for the full pipeline.