Legal and policy
Guides to issues covered by the standards
- Accessibility: the New Zealand legal environment (Web guide)
- Copyright (Web guide)
- Copyright of third parties (Web guide)
- Privacy statements (Web guide)
- Disclaiming content (Web guide)
Guides to issues covered by the other standards, policy and legislation
The areas below are not directly addressed by the web standards, but still contain important legal and policy obligations for government websites.
- Archiving: Managing web information as records and archiving websites (Web guide)
- Authentication: While authentication itself doesn't fall under the web standards, the Terms of use standard requires you provide terms of use for sites requiring authenticated access. For more information on authentication, see Identity Management and Authentication Standards at the e.govt website.
- Māori language. The Māori Language Strategy (hosted at TPK) applies to government websites. See p35 of the strategy.
- Security: see the Technical Web guides
