The Disability Discrimination Act AA standard

As I understand it if a web site complies with the Web Content Accessibility Initiative Guidelines (WAI) as laid down by the World Wide Web Consortium then it’s generally regarded as being also compliant with the DDA legislation, this is however not defined in the legislation. The WAI does have an AA standard. Also compliance with the guidelines is not something that can be definitively tested. Our stance here is as follows :-

1. We test sites using the Cynthia Says online tool.

2. We generally work to get compliance to the WAI A standard , which is slightly lower, rather than the AA standard. Our advice to customers is that the A standard means that the site will work fine for the majority of disabled people and that unless a fairly large proportion of their potential clients are disabled or their site is specifically aimed at disabled people, then the extra compliance levels aren’t really necessary.

3. We can build a site to the AA standard.