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Re: AA? standard

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From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Date: Feb 4, 2009 2:10PM

On 4/2/09 20:43, Gary Williamson wrote:
> Hi Rahul
>
> Thanks for your reply. It's a UK based organisation.

The archived guidance from 2007 is here:

http://archive.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/e-government/resources/localgovt-framework/section3.asp

It says:

"UK government policy is that conformance with these guidelines is to
level A, following Priority 1 recommendations. This is likely to be
raised by European legislation to level AA.

"To ensure conformance to the WAI accessibility standards we recommend
local authorities make this a contractual condition in any contracts
with third-party suppliers of web-enabled software or web content."

This is archived, so there may be newer guidance somewhere, but I don't
know where.

I think Rahul's point about clear link text applies.

Note that the government policy doesn't mention WCAG 1.0 or WCAG 2.0
specifically.

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis