NZ Government Web Standards and Recommendations v1.0
Published March 2007
NZ Government Web Standards and Recommendations v1.0
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Background
State Services Commission published Web Guidelines in December 2002 and issued revised guidelines in February 2004.
New Zealand Government Web Standards and Recommendations v1.0 applies to any web site that is intended for the public and financed by the public through the crown or through public agencies.
Web sites that are intended for a limited or specialist audience may not be intended for public use. Such sites should nevertheless make every effort to comply, in order to be accessible to the specialist audience. This extends to web sites that are internal to an agency (intranets). It is good practice to have consistency across agency web sites.
These standards continue to be based on the international World Wide Web (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiatives (WAI, see http://www.w3.org/WAI/). The New Zealand Government Web Standards and Recommendations v1.0 incorporates standards from the WAI that are relevant to New Zealand Government web sites.
You need to:
- Make any existing web site compliant with version 1.0 from 1 January 2008, and
- Comply with any subsequent versions of the New Zealand Government Web Standards and Recommendations produced after 1 January 2008.
Expectations
You are expected to:
- read, understand, support and implement the NZ Government Web Standards and recommended requirements
- provide good practice examples to share across Government
- conduct regular self-audits of compliance (at least once a year) with the Standards from 1 January 2008.
