SwedenMyndigheten för tillgängliga mediers föreskrifter om kompletterande tillgänglighetskrav för tjänster som utgör tillhandahållande av e-böcker (Swedish Agency for Accessible Media regulations on supplementary accessibility requirements for e-book services)
In force since .
An accessibility requirements rule binding public and private bodies.
- Instrument type
- a regulation made under an act
What it requires
- The requirements apply to an e-book only where it is not protected by the Freedom of the Press Act or the Fundamental Law on Freedom of Expression; the constitutional amendments that would extend them to protected e-books are proposed to enter into force on .
- If you provide an e-book service, meet Annex 2 to Förordning (2023:676) and, for an e-book that contains audio as well as text, keep text and audio synchronized (KRFS 2025:1, s. 3, point 1; Directive (EU) 2019/882, Annex I, Section IV).
- Keep the e-book's digital files from preventing assistive technologies from working, give access to the content and navigation with structure, flexibility and choices in presentation, allow alternative rendering and interoperability with assistive technologies, and make the e-book discoverable through accessibility metadata (KRFS 2025:1, s. 3, points 2 to 5).
- Keep digital rights management from blocking the accessibility features (KRFS 2025:1, s. 3, point 6).
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Penalty structure
Section 39 of the Act sets the sanction fee (sanktionsavgift) at not less than SEK 10,000 and not more than SEK 10,000,000, determined by the seriousness and extent of the breach and the circumstances, reducible wholly or partly for special reasons, and payable to the State. The same range applies to a natural or a legal person, and the Act sets no turnover-based ceiling. No fee is decided in a minor case or where the breach underlies an application to impose a vite (sections 37 and 38). An order under sections 32 to 34 may also carry a vite (section 35), which the Vite Act (1985:206) sets at an amount likely to make the addressee comply, with no statutory ceiling.
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- Minimum
- 10,000
- Currency
- SEK
- Fixed cap
- 10,000,000
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
The Swedish Agency for Accessible Media (Myndigheten för tillgängliga medier, MTM), the supervisory authority for e-book services under section 30 of the Ordinance
What this law does
KRFS 2025:1 is made under section 7 first paragraph point 5 of the Ordinance. Section 3 requires e-book services to meet Annex 2 to the Ordinance. Section 3 point 1 requires e-books that contain audio as well as text to provide text and audio synchronized. Section 3 point 2 requires the digital files of an e-book not to prevent assistive technologies from functioning correctly.
Section 3 point 3 requires access to the content, navigation in the content and layout, including dynamic layout, structure, flexibility and choices in presentation. Section 3 point 4 requires alternative rendering of the content and interoperability with assistive technologies so that the e-book is perceivable, operable, understandable and robust. Section 3 point 5 requires e-books to be made discoverable by information on their accessibility features in metadata.
Section 3 point 6 requires digital rights management measures not to block the accessibility features. Most e-books are protected by the Freedom of the Press Act or the Fundamental Law on Freedom of Expression, and the accessibility requirements cannot apply to e-books with that protection until those constitutional laws are amended. The amendments to those constitutional laws are proposed to enter into force on .
Section 37 of the Act allows a supervisory authority to order an economic operator to pay a sanction fee for breach of rules made under the sections it lists.
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