Taiwan's Accessible Web Development Guidelines & Accreditation Badge — A National WCAG-Based Standard Since 2011

Taiwan amended its People with Disabilities Rights Protection Act on 1 February 2011 to require that public information — including government and school websites — be made accessible. To operationalise the law, authorities (now the Ministry of Digital Affairs, previously the National Development Council) issued the Accessible Web Development Guidelines (AWDG), based on the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, together with regulations for issuing a Web Accessibility Accreditation Badge that let government agencies and schools display a public conformance mark once their sites pass evaluation.
The guidelines are not static: in July 2021 the Ministry added a new success criterion, amended an existing one and introduced 17 additional accreditation-badge criteria, reflecting periodic revision against evolving WCAG practice. Taiwan was one of the earliest jurisdictions in Asia to legislate binding public-sector web accessibility, predating the EU's Web Accessibility Directive by five years; the World Wide Web Consortium's own policy tracker lists it among established national accessibility mandates.

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