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• New Zealand Government Web Standards 1.0

See the New standards transition Web guides for what's changed, why, and how best to make the move. 

New Zealand Government Web Standards 2.0

Standards

1. Strategy and operations

• Web strategy
• Tendering and contracts

2. Technical

WCAG2.0 (AA), including New Zealand-specific requirements.

3. Content and design

• Required pages or sections and their content
• Linking to non-HTML files
• Printing webpages

4. Legal and policy

• Copyright
• Copyright of third parties
• Privacy statement
• Disclaiming content
• Terms of use
  

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General overviews, summaries and guides

• NEW: Standards summary. Development checklist.
• NEW: Web standards 1.0 and 2.0 compared
• The new standards: how they fit together. General summary of what's changed.
• Overview of the technical standards. How the new technical standards work together and why WCAG2.0 was adopted.
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0: Overview and Structure (IT Solutions Blog)

Print and PDF versions

The new standards are available in a one-page HTML version and in a PDF version (84 KB).

Comparisons with the old standards

The Transition web guides map the old standards to the new.