EdLaw
Italy — Legge Stanca (legge 9 gennaio 2004, n. 4)
Italy's ICT-accessibility act, predating and now implementing the EU Web Accessibility Directive framework, with AGID (Agenzia per l'Italia digitale) issuing the operative linee guida. Curated here is the current core: objectives, definitions, who is bound, and the obligations.
Fact text is Italian (authentic language); this README is curation.
Applicability to EdTech
- Vendors can be directly in scope two ways: (1) any subject benefiting from public contributions or facilitations for delivering services via information systems or the internet is covered (art. 3, comma 1) — relevant where an EdTech deployment is publicly funded; (2) private entities offering services to the public through websites or mobile apps with a three-year average turnover above €500 million are covered outright (comma 1-bis, added by d.l. 76/2020).
- Procurement is the enforcement lever for everyone else: public bodies must apply the AGID accessibility requirements when buying ICT goods and services — contracts for non-compliant supplies are affected and accessibility weighs in evaluation (art. 4). A school or ministry buying an EdTech product must demand Stanca/AGID conformity.
- Definitions align with the EU acquis: accessibility of systems including websites and mobile apps, and tecnologie assistive (art. 2).
- The EU-level substance is in the Web Accessibility Directive and, from June 2025 for products/services, the European Accessibility Act.
Contents
| Document | Covers |
|---|---|
| ACCESSIBILITA.md | Legge 4/2004 art. 1–4 (testo vigente) |
Scope note: the operative technical requirements of art. 11 — AGID's Linee guida sull'accessibilità degli strumenti informatici (EN 301 549 based) — are carried in AGID Linee guida accessibilità.
Enforcement
AGID monitors and issues the linee guida; the Difensore civico per il digitale receives complaints.
Licence
The corpus reproduces articles 1–4 of legge 9 gennaio 2004, n. 4 (Legge Stanca) in the testo vigente on Normattiva.
Italian copyright law does not apply to official acts. Art. 5 of legge 22 aprile 1941, n. 633 (Normattiva — legge 633/1941, art. 5, read 2026-10-01) provides: "Le disposizioni di questa legge non si applicano ai testi degli atti ufficiali dello stato e delle Amministrazioni pubbliche, sia italiane che straniere."
Conditions: none attach to the statute text, because no copyright subsists in it. The corpus still identifies its source: each fact document names its source in its opening citation line and in its Meta section, and Sources here links the official text (Normattiva). The changes (the selection of provisions, the Markdown layout and the added anchors) are described in Meta. The corpus does not claim that the publisher endorses it, and only the officially promulgated text is authentic.
Related
- EU Web Accessibility Directive and European Accessibility Act
- Codice privacy — the Italian data-protection side
- AGID Linee guida accessibilità — the art. 11 linee guida with the technical requirements