Understanding accessibility requirements for public sector bodies
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Help your team understand why they need to meet the website and mobile app accessibility regulations.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 7
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
- Category
- Governance & assurance
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
Help your team understand why they need to meet the website and mobile app accessibility regulations. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Understanding accessibility
- Why making your public sector website or mobile app accessible is important
- Meeting accessibility requirements
- Who has to meet the accessibility regulations
- When you may be exempt from accessibility regulations
- When complying with accessibility regulations might be a 'disproportionate burden'
- Things you might not need to fix
- When you need to meet these regulations
- Public sector websites and apps
- Outsourced websites
- Mobile apps
- How the accessibility regulations will be monitored and enforced
- Enforcement
- How users can raise an issue
Source and licence
Government Digital Service
AttributionGovernment Digital Service, ‘Understanding accessibility requirements for public sector bodies’ (updated 30 September 2024), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.016/09/2026