Digital accessibility has become a legal, reputational, and operational risk that gambling operators can no longer afford to ignore. With less than three months until EU Member States must begin enforcing national laws implementing the European Accessibility Act (EAA), gambling industry stakeholders face a fast-approaching compliance challenge.

Failure to meet accessibility requirements could expose operators to financial penalties, enforcement action, public scrutiny, and consumer litigation—especially if key features like responsible gaming tools are not accessible to all users. We’ve already seen how this can unfold in the United States, where thousands of lawsuits have been filed under the Americans with Disabilities Act against digital platforms, including online gambling operators.

In response, gambling advisory firm EGARA and accessibility technology and certification provider CityMaaS have announced a strategic partnership to deliver the first-ever accessibility solution tailored to gambling operators by combining their respective fields of expertise.

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This includes accessibility audits, product integration support, certification, and staff training—all delivered with a deep understanding of the unique demands and risks faced by licensed operators in highly regulated gaming markets. It addresses a long-overlooked risk area that also ties directly into responsible gaming, fairness, and user protection.

Key highlights of the EGARA x CityMaaS Partnership:

• Readiness check: The partnership between EGARA and CityMaaS offers operators a readiness check and manual to implement across their business.
• Certification: The partnership offers operators a solution to certify their accessibility offering. This will prove highly important for operators as several gambling regulators have confirmed the regulations are in scope and are already themselves being called to action by accessibility enforcement bodies.
• Audit function: The partnership offers a tailored auditing, reviewing platforms’ accessibility offering, ensuring they reach more customers, more effectively in line with the projected regulations, while ensuring critical features like responsible gaming tools are available to everyone with fairness, transparency and actual protection of all groups.
• ESG and Responsible Leadership: The collaboration offers bespoke advice and training to ensure operators lead— and not just comply—by embedding fairness and inclusion into the core of digital player experiences across all offerings including websites and customer service functions.
• Technical Solution: CityMaaS’s technology incorporates the latest advancements in accessibility, providing a robust and reliable solution for EGARA’s clients in the gambling industry.

Operators and platform providers can begin accessibility readiness assessments now: www.egara.co/contact-us.

Jessica Maier, Co-founder of EGARA said: “Despite its transformative potential to harmonize accessibility standards across the EU, the European Accessibility Act has surprisingly remained underdiscussed within our sector, leaving many organisations unprepared for its imminent impact. Through our partnership with CityMaaS, we’re enabling operators to rapidly close any existing gaps to reduce legal and reputational risk, and ultimately make gambling platforms more inclusive and sustainable, bolstering responsible gaming efforts and providing opportunity for sustainable growth.

“CityMaaS is thrilled to collaborate with EGARA to bring our state-of-the-art accessibility solutions to the gambling sector. Together, we are setting a new standard for accessibility and user experience,” said Rene Perkins, CEO of CityMaaS.

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Motivating and Result-Oriented Challenges

On March 4, 2025, TotoGaming launched Journey to the Galaxy, a game developed in collaboration with leading content supplier Pragmatic Play. The game’s creation story is about more than just a partnership.

In 2024, Pragmatic Play announced a competition for licensed operators in the Armenian market, awarding points for completing challenges designed to boost player engagement. The prize was an exclusive bespoke game tailored to the operator’s precise requirements.

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“For TotoGaming’s team, this was an exciting opportunity to test our skills. Although our brand has been in the market for 20 years, we love participating in competitions and setting new challenges for ourselves. Pragmatic Play’s competition was exactly that. Our team spent months developing creative marketing campaigns and coming up with innovative approaches. The result is TotoGaming’s victory, which was truly inspiring,” says Victorya Harutyunyan, Head of Product Marketing Department.

Introducing “Journey to. the Galaxy”

After TotoGaming won the competition, the process of developing the exclusive game began. One of Pragmatic Play’s existing games already featured all the elements that interested TotoGaming, from Buy Bonus options to free spins. The next step was to define the new game’s theme and branding.

“This is where one of the most exciting phases began. Our team found the concept we wanted to visualize in this game—an extension of TotoGaming’s vision and mission. The idea was to transport users to another ‘gaming’ world, essentially to another TotoGaming galaxy. That’s how the game got its name—Journey to. the Galaxy. We worked extensively with Pragmatic Play on every detail—from TotoGaming’s flag to the well-known Toto icon. Even the music was carefully selected,” Victorya Harutyunyan added.

The careful attention to detail is reflected in the fact that both TotoGaming and Pragmatic Play were meticulous in their approach to the game’s development. The TotoGaming team outlined the concept, while Pragmatic Play designed and built the game to the high standards for which it is valued. The project started on July 9, 2024, and was completed in March 2025.

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The final product is a new, dynamic game with captivating visuals and engaging mechanics, designed to resonate with the Armenian market.

“This collaboration also unlocks cross-promotion and expanded marketing opportunities, allowing us to strategically plan game teasers and targeted communications that strengthen player engagement”, concluded TotosGaming’s Head of Product Marketing Department.