The Commission is committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities and we aim to improve the user experience for all users of our website. In designing our website, we have applied the NZ Government Web Standards.

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 define requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities.

WWCAG 2.1 defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA and Level AAA.

Our goal for our website is WWCAG 2.1 Level AA conformance.

Technical specifications

Accessibility of the Law Commission's website relies on:

• HTML
• WAI-ARIA
• CSS
• JavaScript.

Assessment approach

The accessibility of our website has been assessed with: 

• https://wave.webaim.org/
• https://accessibilityinsights.io/docs/web/overview/
• Google Lighthouse.