Appendix 6 - UK govt accessibility term

http://www.esd.org.uk/

schema - http://www.esd.org.uk/standards/egms/3.0/egms%2Dschema/

from Andrew Wilson issues paper for as 5044:

Element Name:   Accessibility
Namespace:   eGMS.
                                 http://www.esd.org.uk/standards/egms/3.0/egms-schema#
Label:   Accessibility
Type:   Element
eGMS definition:   Indicates the resource’s availability and usability to specific groups, in particular people with disabilities and users of filtering software.
Comment:   The values assigned to this tag will assert compliance with usability and accessibility standards.
Obligation:   Internet Content Rating Association rating and conformance with W3C Content Accessibility Guidelines is Mandatory for resources to be published on any public website. Other tags Recommended as appropriate.

Encoding schemes

ICRA – http://www.icra.org
WCAG - http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/
RNIB - http://www.rnib.org.uk/digital/siraccess/welcome.htm
Notes: Accessibility indicates whether particular users will be able to access or use the resource. Rights indicates if they are allowed to.
The eGMS standard claims that “some filtering software designed to protect children will in future not allow access to any site that does not have a suitable ICRA rating”.

ICRA labels are expressed using RDF. See example in Appendix A.
Examples: <META NAME="AGLS.accessibility" scheme="WCAG" content="Double-A">
<agls:accessibility>
Bobby accredited
</agls:accessibility>

Royal National Institute of Blind People

e-Government Metadata Standard (eGMS) Elements, http://www.esd.org.uk/standards/egms/egmsweb.pdf

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