Overview

Website owners have had a legal duty to make their websites accessible to the disabled for more than a decade.

With the new Equality Act 2010 reinforcing those duties later this year, now is a good time for website owners to remind themselves of their duties and prepare for the new Act.

Under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, legal obligations for website providers to make their website accessible to the disabled have existed since 1999, supplemented by industry standards and best practice.

These obligations look to be strengthened under the new Equality Act, the main provision of which are due to come into force in October 2010. In preparation for that Act coming into force, this briefing looks at the existing law and the law as it will function under the Act.

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