Re: Directives, policies, laws, and regulations that reference WCAG 2.1

The European Union does not reference specifications from standardisation bodies it has not recognised as official European standardisation bodies. The three standardisation bodies recognised by the EU are CEN, CENELEC and ETSI. This is why WCAG 2.1 is referenced indirectly, i.e. through EN 301 549, published by ETSI.

However, even EN 301 549 is not mentioned explicitly in, e.g. the European Accessibility Act. Instead, the first item in Article 15 of that act says, "Products and services which are in conformity with harmonised standards or parts thereof the references of which have been published in the Official Journal of the European Union, shall be presumed to be in conformity with the accessibility requirements of this Directive in so far as those standards or parts thereof cover those requirements."
(See https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.L_.2019.151.01.0070.01.ENG&toc=OJ:L:2019:151:TOC )

The European Web Accessibility Act, by contrast, does mention that standard; see Article 6: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32016L2102#d1e846-1-1.

Best regards,

Christophe Strobbe


> On 14 July 2020 at 01:23 Phill Jenkins <pjenkins@us.ibm.com> wrote:
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>     Do you know of any country or state directives, policies, regulations, or laws that reference WCAG 2.1?
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>     Web Accessibility Laws & Policies
>     https://www.w3.org/WAI/policies/ https://www.w3.org/WAI/policies/
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>     None of these reference list WCAG 2.1
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>     1. The European accessibility standard EN 301 549 references WCAG 2.1,
>     https://www.w3.org/WAI/news/2018-09-13/WCAG-21-EN301549/ https://www.w3.org/WAI/news/2018-09-13/WCAG-21-EN301549/
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>     2. California Consumer Privacy Act regulations will likely require WCAG 2.1
>     https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/insight-applying-the-ccpas-new-accessibility-requirements-to-privacy-policies https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/insight-applying-the-ccpas-new-accessibility-requirements-to-privacy-policies
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>     Australia?
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>     Canada?
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>     Korea?
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>     Do you know of any that reference WCAG 2.1?
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>     Phill Jenkins
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