Last updated: 18 February 2025
NL Digital Government complies with the legal obligation digital accessibility WCAG 2.1 AA. This means that this site is useful for people with disabilities. WCAG stands for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. (WCAG 2.1). These are the international guidelines for accessibility of web content. If you come across inaccessible content, please reach out to us us.
Accessibility evaluation
From 12 – 25 januari 2025, our website was checked for accessibility by an external agency. This assessment, which involved sampling various pages, was aimed at determining if the site is sufficiently accessible for individuals with disabilities. According to the Dutch registry for web accessibility, NLDigitalGovernment.nl meets the full compliance requirements of Status A.
Ensuring accessibility
We add new content to the website on an (almost) daily basis and carry out technical changes regularly. Therefore, we have taken a few steps to ensure the website remains accessible:
- Site manual: We operate a guidebook describing how we place content on the site.
- Staff training: Our editors have been trained in the field of digital accessibility.
- Testing: We regularly test the website for accessibility using various tools. Moreover, the website is tested annually by an independent expert.
- Web developers must also enforce compliance: Any modification to the website executed by our web agency has to comply with the WCAG criteria. Any new web developer is required to have verifiable experience with enforcing accessibility rules.
- Problem-solving: We aim to modify inaccessible content as quickly as possible.
