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State agency Internet Web sites: biennial certification of compliance with sections 7405 and 11135 and WCAG 2.0 Level AA
Cal. Government Code section 11546.7
In force since .
An accessibility requirements rule binding government bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
- Conformance standard
- WCAG 2.0 AA
What it requires
- If you are the director or chief information officer of a state agency or state entity, post on the home page of your Internet Web site a signed certification that you have determined the Internet Web site complies with sections 7405 and 11135 and with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, or a later version, at a minimum of Level AA success criteria; post it before and before July 1 every second year after that (Gov. Code 11546.7(a)).
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What this law does
Government Code section 11546.7(a) requires the director and the chief information officer of each state agency or state entity to post on the home page of its Internet Web site, before and before July 1 every second year after that, a signed certification that they have determined the Internet Web site complies with sections 7405 and 11135 and with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, or a later version, at a minimum of Level AA success criteria.
Section 11546.7(b) requires the Director of Technology to create a standard form that each chief information officer uses to determine whether the Internet Web site complies with those accessibility standards. Section 11546.7 was added by Statutes 2017, chapter 780 (AB 434), effective .
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