Amendments to the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018

4.  For regulation 9 substitute—

“9.   A website or mobile application of a public sector body will be presumed to be in conformity with the accessibility requirement to the extent that the website or mobile application conforms to Level A and AA Success Criteria as set out in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium, as amended from time to time(1).”

(1)

The latest version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1) is available from http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG/. This can also be obtained in hard copy at the Central Digital & Data Office, The White Chapel Building, 10 Whitechapel High Street, 7th Floor, London, E1 8QS.