Policies Update - Australia

Editors,

Here are some suggested updates to: http://www.w3.org/WAI/Policy/#Australia..
I believe these updates would be listed under the *Relevant Documents *section.
I have pasted in complete text from the updates that I am making to provide
you with links, dates and summary information.

Regards,

George
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George Joeckel, MS
Web Accessibility Specialist
WebAIM

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WCAG 2.0 Adoption






*The Australian government ratified the UN convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD)
<http://www.un.org/disabilities/default.asp?id=150> in 2008. In November
2009, The council of Commonwealth, State, and Territory communications
ministers adopted WCAG 2.0 in a communique to the Online and Communications
Council (OCC). Together with the Secretaries’ ICT Governance Board (SIGB)
the following timeline was established: - All Australian, state and
territory government websites must conform to Level A by December 2012
(OCC).- All Australian Government agencies must conform to Level AA by
December 2014 (SIGB). *The scope was comprehensive: “WCAG 2.0 conformance
is required on all websites owned and/or operated by government under any
domain. This includes external (public-facing or private) and internal
(closed community) sites.” To claim conformance, websites were required to
meet all five WCAG 2.0 conformance requirements
<http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#conformance-reqs>.National Transition Strategy

*In 2010, the National Transition Strategy
<http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/wcag-2-implementation/> set a
“course for improved web services, paving the way for a more accessible and
usable web environment that will more fully engage with, and allow
participation from, all people within our society”. The strategy defined a
timeline for three phases implementation of WCAG 2.0 from July 2010 through
December 2014.*Supporting Guidelines

*A range of supporting guidelines and instruction were provided in the 2010
Australian Government Accessibility Web Guide. Additional guidance is
provided in the 2010 Disability Discrimination Act Web Advisory Notes from
the Australian Human Rights Commission, and updated in Version 4.1
<http://www.humanrights.gov.au/world-wide-web-access-disability-discrimination-act-advisory-notes-ver-40-2010>
in 2014.*The Digital Transformation OfficeIn July 2015 the Digital
Transformation Office <https://www.dto.gov.au/about> “became responsible
for whole-of-government web guidance.” The Web Guide
<http://webguide.gov.au/accessibility-usability/accessibility/> was
superseded by the Digital Service Standard <https://www.dto.gov.au/standard>.
The DTO has created the Design Guides <https://www.dto.gov.au/design-guides>
to help meet the standard. As of this writing the Digital Service Standard
is in beta.