Georgia's 2026 Digital Accessibility Law — Binding WCAG Mandate for Public and Private Websites

A 2021 assessment by UNDP Georgia, the Joint SDG Fund and the UN University, benchmarking selected public-sector websites in Georgia against WCAG AA and comparing them with sites in Denmark, Portugal, the UK and the USA, found that most Georgian public and private organisations' websites did not meet international accessibility standards, and put forward recommendations to Parliament and the government.

On 31 March 2026, Georgia's Parliament acted on that gap by adopting amendments to the Law on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities that make digital accessibility a binding legal obligation. Government bodies and designated private-sector operators — including in education, healthcare, retail food sales and courier services — must make their websites and mobile applications accessible in line with WCAG principles of perceivability, operability, understandability and robustness. Websites published before 1 September 2027 are exempt only if they receive no further content updates after that date; any update triggers compliance obligations. Failure to comply is treated as a form of discrimination under Georgian law.

Because the amendment was adopted only in 2026 with an implementation runway extending to September 2027, no compliance or outcome data yet exists. Its documented strength lies in the design of the legal mechanism itself — a WCAG-aligned, cross-sectoral, discrimination-framed mandate — rather than in measured results, which will only become assessable after the 2027 deadline passes.

Read the full analysis: https://corpowid.ai/blog/digital-accessibility-georgia-navigating-new-legislative-landscape