Accessibility

Accessibility

Accessibility criteria areas were also drawn from the Government Web Guidelines, using 112 criteria plus 32 Web Accessibility Initiative criteria. The Web Accessibility Initiative guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with disabilities. The guidelines include checkpoints for web content developers. Each checkpoint has a priority level 1, 2 or 3. Government websites must at least satisfy priority 1 checkpoints, but websites were tested for all three priority levels: www.w3c.org/TR/WCAG10/#toc].

These included:

• Web content accessibility
• Web standards (including Web Accessibility Initiative guidelines, ensuring HTML is the primary format for all content, and style sheets)
• URLs
• Unicode (Unicode is required as a standard to represent macron characters used in Māori orthography.)
• Web document size
• Navigation
• Fonts
• Images
• Colour
• Visual Identity (including logos and tables)
• Exchanging information (including forms and labels)