Digital Accessibility Standard (DAS) consultation

We want your views on what should be in the standard. This helps make sure the DAS focuses on what people need.

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A new Digital Accessibility Standard (DAS) will replace the Web Accessibility Standard in early . We’re changing the standard to make sure that accessibility is considered for all digital technology — something the current standard does not do.

Read the draft Digital Accessibility Standard (DAS)

Your feedback matters

The DAS will matter most to these groups of people:

  • disabled people
  • people working in government, including staff and decision-makers
  • companies that provide information and services to government.

What happens with the consultation

The draft DAS is open for public consultation from to .

You can share your feedback by:

  • completing the survey online, or
  • emailing answers to the consultation questions to web.standards@gdda.govt.nz, or
  • replying in New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) using NZSL.Direct.

We’re not asking for any personal information. Any information you share will be kept secure and treated with care and respect. You can find out more about how information is collected and stored on our privacy statement page.

Send feedback by email

You can email your answers to the consultation questions to web.standards@gdda.govt.nz. Please include the question number you’re responding to.

Send feedback in NZSL

You can send your feedback in NZSL using NZSL.Direct. It will be confidentially and professionally translated and included in the consultation feedback. This service is free to use for this consultation.

NZSL.Direct/Seeflow

After the consultation

We’ll review and analyse all responses after the consultation closes. This will help shape the final version of the DAS.

We’ll also talk with the people most affected by the DAS. This will help us understand what they need and how we can support them better.

In early we’ll publish the DAS, a summary of the feedback, and a document explaining the decisions made.

Alternate formats

All the information about the DAS consultation is available in the following formats:

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DAS consultation questions

Questions included in the public consultation for the Digital Accessibility Standard (DAS).

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