CCPA: New Website Accessibility Requirements
Hands up if you have ever struggled to navigate a website on your mobile device? ✋✋✋
Unfortunately, the struggle to navigate and access websites is an everyday reality for disabled California consumers, leaving many unable to exercise their newly afforded CCPA privacy rights.
In response to the growing privacy risks facing disabled California consumers, the California Attorney General’s office, on February 7th, included within its published notice of modifications to the proposed CCPA regulations a requirement that privacy policies and online notices be—reasonably accessible—to consumers with disabilities.
The California Attorney General helped clarify the reasonable accessibility standard by recommending that businesses with online notices comply with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), version 2.1, the international standard for web accessibility for people with disabilities.
The AG's recommendation for businesses to comply with the WCAG, 2.1, represents the continued effort to shift privacy rights back into the hands of all California consumers.
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