About the Web Accessibility Guidance project
Find out about the purpose and scope of the web accessibility guidance, who it’s for and how you can give feedback on its early drafts.
Join the Guidance Review Group
If you’re a digital practitioner who designs, builds, tests or publishes content on web pages, we’d love your feedback on early drafts of the new web accessibility guidance.
If you’d like to be involved, email web.standards@dia.govt.nz and let us know the roles or skillsets you can help with.
Purpose of the guidance
The guidance aims to help build accessibility capability across the public sector and New Zealand web community in order to improve the accessibility of government online information and services.
This means helping practitioners understand what’s involved in producing content that meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 as per the NZ Government Web Accessibility Standard.
It will be useful to anyone delivering digital content in New Zealand, whether they’re in the public or private sector.
What’s in the guidance
There are 2 categories of guidance:
When the guidance will be published
The guidance will be delivered in several phases as batches of related content.
The first set of guidance topics was published in December 2021.
See a list of the most recently added guidance.
Who the guidance is for
The guidance is being written from the perspectives of 7 typical roles or functions that affect the accessibility of a digital product or service.
Each of these roles will have its own web page with links to the guidance that’s directly relevant to it.
There are 2 types of roles: roles with direct impact on the accessibility of web content, and roles with influence.
Roles with direct impact
People in these roles make sure that the user interface, content and web technologies (for example, HTML, CSS and JavaScript) are implemented in ways that work for disabled people and their devices.
Roles with influence
People performing these roles make sure that accessibility work is:
- supported with expertise, tools and training
- baked into the product lifecycle
- validated through user research with people of diverse abilities
- included as part of quality assurance.
More information
If you have any questions about this project, email web.standards@dia.govt.nz.
Blog posts about this project
- New web content accessibility guidance to be defined by practitioner needs
- Web accessibility practitioners take first step in co-designing new guidance for New Zealand
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