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Web Accessibility Accreditation for Government & School Websites

Taiwan · Taipei · See the Taiwan profile · See the Taipei profile

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 61% 68/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

Taiwan's Ministry of Digital Affairs runs a legally mandated, four-tier (A/A+/AA/AAA) accessibility accreditation scheme for all government and school websites, combining automated and manual testing, with badges renewed every three years.

Details

Maturity
Established
Promoter
Ministry of Digital Affairs (MODA)
Period
2011-present (standard revised 2017, 2021)
Keywords
digital government, web accessibility, public sector IT, education

Context

Taiwan's Persons with Disabilities Rights Protection Act was amended in February 2011 to require accessible public information; the Ministry of Digital Affairs followed with a Website Accessibility Standard based on WCAG 2.0, effective 15 February 2017 and revised July 2021, requiring every government agency and public school website to pass a four-tier accreditation (Level 1/A, A+, Level 2/AA, Level 3/AAA) combining automated scanning (the Freego tool) with manual expert review, valid for three years.

Results

The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative's policy tracker lists Taiwan's scheme as a mandatory, public-sector-wide WCAG 2.1-derivative policy.

Conclusions

Neither MODA's own site nor the W3C listing publishes an aggregate pass-rate or number of accredited sites in English, so the mandate's legal durability and universal scope are well documented, but outcome data (how many sites actually hold a current badge, at what level) is not publicly quantified.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Medium (€50k–€500k)
Time to results
Long (> 3 years)
Staffing & skills
Ministry of Digital Affairs (MODA), government agency and public-school IT teams, accredited manual reviewers

Conditions for success

  • Public reporting of aggregate pass-rates / accredited-site counts

Common failure modes

  • No published aggregate compliance data despite a decade-plus mandate

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