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Web Accessibility
The law and the low-down:
- Accessibility and the Law
- The Disability Discrimination Act
- DDA Part 3 Code of Practice
- The Disability Rights Commission
- Publicly Available Specification 78
- The Web Accessibility Initiative
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
- WCAG Priorities and Conformance
- PAS 78 Testing and WCAG Validation
- Government Accessibility Guidance
The bottom line:
Inaccessible public information web sites are illegal.
Government Accessibility Guidance
The Cabinet Office publishes a paper Building In Universal Accessibility for UK government websites. It is useful and informative, specifying the following UK Government Accesskeys Standard:
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0 - Access key details
Although widely adopted outside of government, these keys do not constitute a generic standard.