The Web Guidelines

The Web Guidelines are a model for the build quality of websites. In 2004, they were developed by the Netherlands’ government, as part of the ‘transfiguring government’ action plan. Objective of the Web Guidelines is to improve the procurement of government organizations. A website that is built according to the Web Guidelines is characterized by strict separation of content and style, standards compliance, semantic markup, optimal accessibility and the use of progressive enhancement techniques, such as unobtrusive JavaScript.

Web Guidelines is not WCAG!

W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) plays an important role in the Web Guidelines. Often the Web Guidelines are seen as a competitor or replacement of WCAG. This not the case.