MONITORING BADGE · OPTIONAL

A badge that says what is true, and nothing more.

Customers ask for something to put in the footer. Most accessibility badges quietly imply certification, which is precisely the claim that drew a $1M FTC order against an overlay vendor. Ours states a verifiable fact: this site is monitored, and here is the record.

What the badge asserts

This domain is verified and actively monitored
Monitoring started on a stated date and has not lapsed
An evidence file exists and can be inspected
The last scan completed on a stated date

What it never asserts

That the site is accessible
That the site is compliant with the EAA
Any certification, seal of approval or legal defence
A score, grade or percentage

Three styles

All three link to the same public verification page. None of them can be displayed without an active, verified domain behind it.

Dark

Light

Compact

Adding it to your site

One anchor and one image. No script, no tracker, no callback to us on your visitors’ behalf — the badge is a static image and a link, so it cannot leak your visitors to us.

HTML

<a href="https://eaacompliance.org/verify/your-domain.example">
  <img src="https://eaacompliance.org/badge/your-domain.example.svg"
       width="220" height="44"
       alt="Accessibility monitored by EAA Compliance — view the record">
</a>

The alt text is part of the badge. A badge about accessibility that ships without a text alternative would be its own punchline.

What a visitor sees when they click it

The verification page shows only what the domain owner has chosen to publish. It is deliberately plain, and it never displays findings, criteria detail or anything about the site’s defects.

beispiel-commerce.de Monitoring record · published by the domain owner

Domain ownershipVerified by DNS record

Monitored since14 March 2026

Scan frequencyDaily

Last completed scan18 August 2026

Standard tested againstWCAG 2.1 AA · EN 301 549

What this page is notA certification or compliance claim

The rules that keep it honest

It expires on its own. If verification lapses or scanning stops for more than 30 days, the badge stops rendering as monitored and the verification page says so. Nobody has to police it.

It is opt-in, per domain. Turned on from your portal, turned off the same way, and every change is a ledger entry.

It never shows a score. No grade, no percentage, no traffic light — those invite exactly the misreading we are trying to avoid.

Findings stay private. The verification page proves monitoring exists; it does not publish your open defects to the world.

We can withdraw it. If a badge is used to imply certification anywhere it appears, we will ask once and then revoke it.

Should you use one at all?

An honest answer: a badge is marketing, not evidence. The regulator will ask for your conformance report and your ledger, not your footer. Use the badge if it helps you show customers that accessibility is maintained rather than claimed — and skip it if you were hoping it would function as a shield.