Technical Web Guides

These pages are guides and contain advisory content only. Refer to the Standards for the requirements that agencies must meet.

WCAG 2.0 and the New Zealand Technical Standards

• The How to Meet WCAG 2.0 Quick Reference (W3C) is the best version for developers. Note that in the "Customizing this Quick Reference" area at the top of the page, Level A Success Criteria and Level AA Success Criteria should be checked.
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Overview (W3C). Background, an introduction to WCAG, and links to additional information.
• Overview of WCAG 2.0 Documents (W3C). WCAG 2.0 is not designed to be read from cover to cover. This resource from the W3C shows how the parts fit together and what to read first.
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 (W3C)

Developing with WCAG 2.0

Official W3C resources

Note that the New Zealand implementation of WCAG 2.0 comes with a New Zealand-specific layer. Please read about this in the Technical Standards section before consulting the links below.

We recommend the W3C's "How to Meet WCAG 2.0 Quick Reference" as the best and most usable introduction.

Applications

Applications and Accessible Alternatives (Web guide)

Audio and Video

• Using Video on the Web (Web guide)
• Time-Based Media Under WCAG 2.0 (Web guide)

Mobile

• Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 - Basic Guidelines (A W3C recommendation; currently at "proposed recommendation" status)
• Web Content Accessibility and Mobile Web: Making a Web Site Accessible Both for People with Disabilities and for Mobile Devices (W3C)

Printing

• Print stylesheets - the definitive guide (Webcredible)

Security

• OWASP Guide to Building Secure Web Applications v2 (Open Web Application Security Project)
• OWASP Top Ten Projects (Open Web Application Security Project)