Government Web Standards & Recommendations

The Government Web Standards & Recommendations are assessed against version 1.0.  They are made up of the Required Government Content and Accessibility criteria.  They are mandatory for Ministries and Departments.

	Website	Scores	Noted Best Practices
1.	Office of the Auditor-General	93.5	Validated code, PDF support, forms tabbing, site policies, required email addresses
2.	Audit New Zealand	89.7	WAI compliance, small home page size, all HTML content, about us, required email addresses
3.	Creative New Zealand	87.1	Approved document grammars, access keys, non-table layout, cross-browser compliance
4.	Inland Revenue	86.6	Text equivalents to images, approved formal grammars, PDF use, forms features, style sheets, Crown copyright
5.	Elections NZ	86.3	Site policies, required emails, RSS, general content requirements, document links, forms accessibility
6.	Ministry of Foreign Affairs	83.9	Cross-browser compliance, table summaries, descriptive URLs, non-deprecated features