The regulatory landscape in Ireland
Aletheia does not make a third-party site compliant and does not relieve an institution of its own obligations. This section is context for a buyer, not legal advice, and each instrument below is named with its source.
| Instrument | What it requires | Source |
|---|---|---|
| European Accessibility Act | Applies accessibility requirements to a defined set of products and services placed on the EU market, including e-commerce and consumer-facing digital services. In force since 28 June 2025 for newly placed products and services. | Directive (EU) 2019/882 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the accessibility requirements for products and services |
| European Union (Accessibility Requirements of Products and Services) Regulations 2023 | The Irish transposition of Directive (EU) 2019/882. It gives effect to the European Accessibility Act in Irish law and designates the national market surveillance authorities that enforce it. | S.I. No. 636/2023, Irish Statute Book |
| Penalties and officer liability under S.I. No. 636 of 2023 | Non-compliance is a criminal offence. On summary conviction the penalty is a Class A fine of up to EUR 5,000, or imprisonment for up to 6 months, or both. On conviction on indictment it is a fine of up to EUR 60,000, or imprisonment for up to 18 months, or both. Liability attaches personally to directors, managers, secretaries, and other officers of a body corporate where the offence is committed with their consent or connivance, or is attributable to their neglect. | S.I. No. 636/2023 (Regulations 22 and 23), Irish Statute Book |
What Aletheia offers an Irish institutional buyer
Irish universities, public bodies, and employers carry an obligation to their existing disabled staff and students now, whether or not their own estate of documents and systems has been remediated.
The specific thing Aletheia is good at is the gap between when access is owed and when it is delivered. An institution running a multi-year remediation programme still has a disabled employee or student today, reading a scanned PDF that no one has tagged yet, or a form with no labels. Aletheia is an accommodation that can be given to that person immediately: it runs on their own device, it does not require the publisher to act, and it does not require the institution to have finished anything.
- An accommodation you can grant today. A seat can be assigned to a specific person who needs it, without waiting on the remediation queue.
- Nothing leaves the device by default. Documents are processed in the reader's browser and stored in a local library on their device. That keeps the data-protection footprint of an accommodation small, which matters when the person receiving it is identifiable as disabled.
- Procurement-ready documentation. A VPAT, an EN 301 549 mapping, a pre-completed HECVAT response, a DPA template, a sub-processor list, a DPIA, scoped SCCs, and a Transfer Impact Assessment are all published rather than sent on request.
- Honest conformance reporting. Aletheia is partially conformant with WCAG 2.2 Level AA and says so, with the criteria it has not finished proving named individually.
Pricing in Ireland
Aletheia's published per-seat pricing is in United States dollars, and billing is in United States dollars. Aletheia does not currently publish a EUR price list or bill in EUR. For a quote in local currency, including any applicable tax treatment, contact sales.
The published USD baseline, for reference:
- Campus (schools and higher education, volume pricing sized by enrollment): from $12.99 per seat per month at the first band, minimum 50 seats. See Campus for the full band table.
- Enterprise (employers, healthcare, government, large nonprofits, graduated pricing sized by seat count): from $24.99 per seat per month at the first band, minimum 25 seats. See Enterprise for the full band table.
Accessibility of Aletheia itself, for Irish buyers
Aletheia exists to remove accessibility barriers from other people's content, so the tool has to meet the standard it helps people enforce. It is partially conformant with WCAG 2.2 Level AA. Self-evaluation. No third-party accessibility audit has been conducted, and no SOC 2 or comparable certification is claimed. A formal audit by an independent third party is planned and has not yet been carried out.
Ireland requires service providers within the scope of the European Accessibility Act to publish information on how the service meets the accessibility requirements. Aletheia's EAA Conformance Statement is that information, and the EU Accessibility Statement covers the Web Accessibility Directive template used by Irish public sector procurement.
The statements that apply here, in the form a reviewer in Ireland is most likely to want:
- Accessibility statement, in plain language, with every known limitation listed.
- VPAT accessibility report covering every WCAG 2.2 Level A and AA success criterion and the Revised Section 508 standards, also available as a tagged PDF.
- EN 301 549 conformance mapping, clause by clause.
- European Accessibility Act conformance statement under Directive 2019/882.
- EU Accessibility Statement in the Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/1523 template.
If you find an accessibility barrier in Aletheia, tell us at support@lonia.ai. Accessibility reports are treated as defects, not feature requests, and we aim to respond within five business days.