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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.
PAS 78 Testing and WCAG Validation
This involves both automatic testing tools and human review, as it is not possible to validate all issues automatically.
There are a number of online and offline validation tools available to verify WCAG Priority 1 and certain Priority 2 checkpoints.
Audio-visual inspection will expose remaining Priority 2 and 3 problems. Pages should be reviewed with style sheets and script execution disabled, with reduced colours and no graphics, and without a mouse.
The DRC encourages web site reviews to be undertaken by disabled people wherever possible.