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Unfortunately, the page you have submitted for review does not meet our Accessibility standards and is unable to be published at this time.
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The Disability Discrimination Act 1992 requires agencies to ensure people with disabilities have the same access to information and services as others in the community. It is a requirement for all Government sites to meet WCAG AA guidelines.
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The following pages do not meet WCAG AA standards. The content owners acknowledge and accept that they are in breach of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 and have requested to have their page published anyway.
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Tracking the accessibility failureStep 1:Once a content editor has committed to a date for making their documents accessible, move their Jira ticket from ON HOLD to WAITING FOR CUSTOMER. Step 2:Update the accessibility register to include the following details:
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Workplace gender auditing | Department of Premier and Cabinet | Margot Paxman, A/Manager, Commission for Gender Equality in the Public Sector Editor: Enya Cai | Quick publishing turn around - page needed to go live 16.07.2021 | Yes - editor has committed to creating an HMTL accessible version. | Escalated to Emma and Jo as I haven’t received a reply from the stakeholder. MM 10.08.2021 |
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Department of Premier and Cabinet | Chase Phillips, Business Support Officer | Needed to launch the plan, but will complete data tables this week | Yes - committed to creating the online version | Friday 13 August | Housing Registrar: | Department of Treasury and Finance | Paul Bowerman | Being pushy | Yes - committed to creating online version by 1 Dec 2021 |
Decisions log - where PDF/Word docs are accepted with HTML summaries
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Site/site section
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Decision
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Independent Remuneration Tribunal
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PDF/Word documents going forward:
Advice documents – data table as well as PDF (if PDF required). Alternatively, we could avoid publishing the PDF and just add a data table.
Determination/Reports/Statement/Guidelines – summary of key changes or key messages in HTML format with PDF/Word document.
Consultations – full HMTL version using the publications template.
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Tracking the accessibility failure
Once a content editor has committed to a day for making their documents accessible, move their ticket from ON HOLD to WAITING FOR CUSTOMER.
Add an internal note of when the editor will create the accessible version of the document.
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We will review our accessibility register at our weekly team meeting. What if the editor replied to your email/hasn’t committed to creating a HMTL summary?If you’ve attempted to contact the editor twice (via email) and haven’t received a reply, escalate the email to Emma. Emma will contact the editor to discuss the breach further Accessibility exceptionsIn some instances, there are exceptions to the creating a HMTL document. Generally this includes:
However, in some instances a separate discussion can be had with a department or agency if the content is niche or HTML summaries can added for large documents to cover key messages. If this has been decided and discussed, please update the Decision log - exceptions tab on the accessibility process and register spreadsheet. |
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