The EAA, in short

The European Accessibility Act (EAA) is in force and enforceable. It applies to many digital products and services, and a no-code application is no exception: it can absolutely comply. Compliance rests on well-established frameworks (WCAG internationally, RGAA in France): these aren’t obscure boxes to tick, but concrete, common-sense criteria.

Making a Bubble app accessible: the method

We have no secret in-house recipe: we apply the standards, from the design stage. The points that make the difference:

  • Sufficient contrast between text and its background (the WCAG AA threshold is 4.5:1 for body text).
  • Full keyboard navigation: anything clickable must be reachable and operable by keyboard, with a focus indicator that’s always visible.
  • Large enough targets: comfortable clickable areas, especially for an older audience.
  • Labelled forms, with error messages spelled out in text, not colour alone.
  • No information carried by colour alone: a red dot must also say “error”.
  • A structure readable by assistive technology: a clear heading hierarchy, a logical reading order, alt text on meaningful images.

On Bubble, a few traps deserve particular attention: the responsive engine, custom elements and plugins that must stay keyboard-usable, and the focus order of groups. We check it all the same way as anywhere else: keyboard only, screen reader, and a contrast checker.

A selling point, not just a constraint

Accessibility broadens your market. A sizeable and growing share of the population has accessibility needs, permanently or temporarily: roughly one person in six worldwide lives with a significant disability (World Health Organization). Among them, a senior audience increasingly comfortable online, often with real spending power: excluding them through neglect means turning away paying customers.

It’s also, more simply, a value worth holding to. No one is immune to ageing, or to a temporary impairment; designing accessibly today means doing for others what we’ll one day be grateful for ourselves.

Finally, accessibility is a lever for visibility. A clean, semantic structure is better understood by search engines and by generative AIs. In a web saturated with content produced every day, that readability is no longer a bonus, it has become essential to stand out.

An accessibility audit, or a project you want accessible from the start? Let’s talk.