Norway's ICT Accessibility Legislation, Methods and Indicators

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2016:229:471-81.

Abstract

This paper gives an overview of the Norwegian legislation on Universal Design of information and communication technology (ICT) and how the Norwegian Authority for Universal Design of ICT works to enforce and achieve the goals behind the legislation. The Authority uses indicators to check websites for compliance with the regulations. This paper describes the rationale and intended use for the indicators and how they are used for both supervision and benchmarks as well as a way of gathering data to give an overview of the current state of Universal Design of websites in Norway.

MeSH terms

  • Access to Information / legislation & jurisprudence*
  • Communication*
  • Information Technology / legislation & jurisprudence*
  • Norway