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Summary

All services, products, and websites must meet the current published WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) version to conformance level AA.

WarningYou are breaking the law if you do not meet this standard.

Categories

The categories applicable to this standard are:

Product and Delivery
  • Product Management
QA and Development
  • Frontend Development
  • Quality Assurance Testing
User-Centred Design and Accessibility
  • Accessibility
  • Content Design
  • Interaction Design
  • Service Design
  • User Research

Purpose

As a public sector body, we have a moral responsibility to ensure the services, products, and websites we provide are accessible for anyone who needs to use them.

We are legally required to meet the following UK laws and regulations:

  • Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) Accessibility Regulations 2018
  • Equality Act 2010
  • EN 301 549 Accessibility Requirements for ICT Products and Services

You can read a summary of these in the DfE Accessibility and inclusive design manual.

How to meet this standard

Your product must meet, in its entirety, the relevant Level A and AA criteria of the current published Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).

Read this related guidance

To help you meet this standard, use the following:

Approved products

Approved product or service

Product or service
Accessibility issues and statements service
Vendor
DfE - DesignOps
Version
Evergreen
Use-case
For services in DfE to enrol and manage their issues and statements centrally. This is instead of managing your statement manually as a file within your product or website.

Declaring conformance with this standard

Conformance with the standard must be recorded every 12 months.

Owner and contacts

Standard owner
Andy Jones
Head of Profession - Design
Standard owner
Jake Lloyd
Senior Accessibility Specialist