Legislation ensuring accessibility

Role

Banning discrimination on the basis of disability.

Relevance to IT systems

All owners and hosts have obliagations to make their sites accessible to all.

Role

The equality act created a single legal framework to ensure equality for all. It applies for both personal life and workplace.

Relevance to IT systems

Providers must provide special computer softwae or additional staff support to make their systems accessible.

Role

Covers a whole range of subjects, including accessibility. They are in place to ensure compliance with legislation.

Relevance to IT systems

Ensuring that the web products are accessible to users with physical impairement or learning difficulcy.

Role

Provides a process for ensuring that IT systems are accessible. The framework is two categories - creation systems and use of systems, broken into steps.

Relevance to IT systems

Create steps:

• Define 'accessible'
• Provide user interface elements
• Provide authoring tools

Use steps:

• Provide platform supports
• Provide accessible software
• Provide assistive technologies.

Role

Defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to ensure web contect is accessble to all disabilities.

Relevance to IT systems

It defines three different levels for accessibility

Priority 1 is considered the minimum to allow users with diability to access a website.