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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.
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
The WCAG explains how to make information in a web page (or web application) accessible to people with disabilities. This includes text, images, forms, sounds, etc.
The guidelines outline principles of accessible design with prioritized checkpoints assigned to each. The priority levels determine the impact of each checkpoint on accessibility.
Implementation guidance for all checkpoints is provided by WCAG documents covering Core techniques, HTML techniques and CSS techniques.
WCAG Version 1.0 was approved in 1999. Version 2.0, expected in 2006, improves on recent technologies, interpretation and testability.