ColombiaMinTIC Resolution 1519 of 2020, web accessibility at WCAG 2.1 level AA and captioned video for the subjects obligated by the Transparency Law
In force since .
An accessibility requirements rule binding public and private bodies.
- Conformance standard
- WCAG 2.1 AA
As of .
What it requires
- If you are a private person that provides a public service, or a political party or movement or a significant group of citizens, make your web portals and electronic offices meet level AA of version 2.1 of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, in line with Annex 1 (Resolución 1519 de 2020, Art. 3; Annex 1, 1.3); this applies from . A person that provides a public service owes this for the information directly related to that service (Ley 1712 de 2014, Art. 5(c)).
- Apply the Annex 1 accessibility guidelines in every update, structuring, restructuring, design and redesign of those portals and offices, and to the contents already on them (Art. 3; Annex 1, 1.3).
- Include in 100% of your new videos the option of captions or closed caption that the user can switch on; this does not apply to live and direct transmissions (Annex 1, 1.5, item 1).
- Put a link to the site map in the footer of the site, kept up to date so that contents and topics are easy to find, and publish a site map in XML format that search engines can read (Annex 1, 1.6).
- Prepare the word-processor documents, spreadsheets, PDF documents and presentations you publish on those portals following the accessibility criteria of Annex 1, Chapter 3.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text, as of .
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Ministerio Público (Procuraduría General de la Nación), which Article 23 of Ley 1712 de 2014 charges with overseeing compliance with the obligations that Law sets
Settledness
- As of
- Open questions
- Does Article 3 reach the whole web portal of a private subject, or only the pages that carry the information the Transparency Law ties to its public service or function?
- Does the Resolution reach a mobile application, given that it speaks of web portals (portales web) and electronic offices (sedes electrónicas)?
What it reaches
Instrument type
a regulation made under an act
Applicability criteria
Under paragraph 1 of Article 5, private natural or legal persons that are users of public information are not obligated subjects. Article 5 also obligates public entities and independent State bodies (literals a and b), persons that perform a public function or exercise public authority (literals c and d), entities that administer parafiscal institutions, funds or resources of public origin (literal f), and persons that receive or intermediate public funds (last paragraph); those duties are covered on law.ungovr.org in the public-sector accessibility entry for Colombia.
- As of
- Combinator
- Any of
- Criteria
- a private natural or legal person that provides public services, with respect to the information directly related to the provision of the public service ("respecto de la información directamente relacionada con la prestación del servicio público", Ley 1712 de 2014, Article 5(c)), attending to the special rules that regulate each sector ("atendiendo las reglas especiales que regulan cada sector", Decreto 1081 de 2015, Article 2.1.1.1.2, paragraph)
- a political party or movement, or a significant group of citizens (Ley 1712 de 2014, Article 5(e))
What this law does
Article 2 applies the Resolution to the subjects obligated by Article 5 of Ley 1712 de 2014. Article 3 requires those subjects, from , to meet level AA of version 2.1 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines issued by the W3C. The duty applies in every process of updating, structuring, restructuring, design and redesign of their web portals and electronic offices, and to the existing contents of those.
Annex 1 requires all new videos to offer closed captions that users can activate, except live transmissions. Annex 1 requires a link to a site map in the footer of the site and a site map in XML format. Annex 1 requires the entities of the national government to present four kinds of video with Colombian Sign Language interpretation.
Chapter 3 of Annex 1 sets accessibility criteria for the digital documents published on the web: word-processor documents, spreadsheets, PDF documents and presentations. Article 8 sets as the latest day to implement Article 3. Ley 1712 de 2014 reaches persons that provide public services or perform public functions only with respect to the information directly related to that service or function.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app ships a consumer interface.