The BBC maintains guidelines on the technology implications of the Disability Discrimination Act and standards for designing websites and applications to accommodate users with disabilities.

Introduction

The UK Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) was passed in 1995 to introduce new measures aimed at ending the discrimination which many disabled people face. It protects disabled people in the areas of:

• employment;
• access to goods, facilities and services and;
• the management, buying or renting of land or property.

The BBC aims to

• provide all general BBC information in formats appropriate to its disabled employees
• ensure that all disabled employees can access all the programmes on desktop PCs

Diversity Policy Statement

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The BBC will make all reasonable adjustments within the technical environment to ensure we comply with the terms of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995/Equalities Act 2010. This means: 
- Ensuring our desktop and broadcast technologies comply with the standards detailed in the Technical Accessibility Standards documents, which form part of the BBC's technical standards, "Delivering Quality", published on www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/dq/contents/diversity.shtml.
- Trying to ensure web services on bbc.co.uk are accessible by:
    - defining how the service will aim to reasonably support the different accessibility needs of our disabled audiences
    - defining and using appropriate guidelines (published on www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/futuremedia/accessibility/) to guide the production of the service to meet those aims
    - user-testing the service with disabled users to check its implementation meets those aims
    - providing help for disabled users to use the service in the best way for them.
 

Web Development

Standards covering the building of web sites for the BBC can be viewed at the Future Media Guidelines site.

Accessibility Standards

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Accessibility and Usability Standards for Procurement and Accessibility and Usability

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Accessibility and Usability Standards for Procurement and Checklists

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Accessibility and Usability Standards for Integration Summary

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Accessibility and Usability Standards for Integration Summary Checklist

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Accessibility and Usability Standards for Training Inclusively for Disabled People

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Accessibility and Usability Standards for Training Inclusively for Disabled People Checklist

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Accessibility and Usability Standards for Technical Standards Guidance

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Accessibility and Usability Standards for producing accessible emails

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Accessibility and Usability Standards for Legacy Applications

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