Activities / What code does

Ships a consumer interface

ships_consumer_interface

Your product has a website, app or other screen that members of the public use to buy, book, read or reach a service.

scope code
in the registry since 1.15
81 laws in 14 jurisdictions name it

What triggers it

The lint's definition. It offers a website, app or other screen that members of the public use to buy, book, read or reach a service. A tool only your own staff use is not this.

This covers a storefront, a booking or sign-up flow, a news or reference site, a portal where customers manage an account, and a mobile app's screens, whether you built them or a vendor hosts them.

What does not

A tool only your own staff use, such as an admin console or an internal dashboard, does not count, and neither does an API with no screen of its own.

Distributing an app through an app store is Ships a mobile app, which can apply beside this one.

Often confused with Ships a mobile app.

The law it brings into scope

The kinds of law that name this activity in the LexLint law library, with the number of laws and jurisdictions in each, as of 2 Nov 2026. The examples are chosen by rule, laws in force first and the widest jurisdiction first; each section's page lists every law.

Area of law	Laws	Jurisdictions
Digital accessibility law Make what you sell or offer to the public usable by people with disabilities, to the standard the law names. European Accessibility Act, accessibility requirements for services European Union Americans with Disabilities Act Title III, public accommodations and the auxiliary aids and services rule United States Decree of 24 July 2019 on the accessibility of online public communication services, standard, turnover threshold, exemptions, statement and deadlines France	81	14

Area of law

Laws

Jurisdictions

Digital accessibility law

Make what you sell or offer to the public usable by people with disabilities, to the standard the law names.

Counterparties that usually come with it

the members of the public who use its pages and screens
the web host or content network that serves them

A component that cannot run as documented without one of these names it in its ACTIVITIES.md under talks_to, with required: true. That party's jurisdiction then joins the run of every product that uses the component, and the finding says why it is there. A default the deployer can change is asked about, never added. Talking to a party never makes a product that party.

In a declaration

A library or framework that makes this possible enables it; an application whose shipped code does it performs it.

For a library

activities: - id: ships_consumer_interface mentioned: enables enabled: requires_configuration where: [<the module that carries it>] note: <one sentence>

For an application

activities: - id: ships_consumer_interface mentioned: performs enabled: by_default where: [<the module that carries it>] note: <one sentence: what it does, and the kind of law it attracts>

History

In the registry since version 1.15, 2 Nov 2026.

Added for European Accessibility Act, accessibility requirements for services (European Union), Integrated Accessibility Standards Regulation, accessible websites and web content (large organizations) (Ontario), Air Carrier Access Act rule, accessibility of carrier websites (United States), the law that turns on it.

In the glossary: Ships a consumer interface.

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