The ECB plans robust accessibility features for its digital euro app, pledging to surpass EU standards. Usability testing with diverse groups will begin as part of a 2027 pilot.

“Like cash, the digital euro will be a public good and, in the digital age, every European should be able to access it on equal terms,” said Piero Cipollone, an ECB Executive Board member who chairs the High-Level Task Force on a digital euro.