There are rules and guidelines for accessibility on many levels. The original guidelines for accessibility on Web sites come from the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), a group within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

WAI Guidelines Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 was released in December 2008. They specify how to build websites so that they could be considered available. The WAI guidelines are the basis for virtually all other guidelines and recommendations available. But as with all guidelines, they must be interpreted and adapted to suit in different countries and situations.

Funka has on behalf of W3C's made the authorized translation of WCAG 2.0 into Swedish. This translation will be used as the basis for the guidance of the public sector in Sweden that the authority ‘E-delegationen’ starts in autumn 2010.

At the EU level, one has long seen the WAI guidelines as the best guidelines to work on in terms of accessibility. This has for instance been expressed within the focus area of E-Inclusion. The U.S. also builds its legislation Section 508 out of the W3C guidelines.

WCAG are only guidelines for how a website should be built. There is no methodology for evaluation of accessibility. It has long been a need to standardize how the tests should be done. An attempt at this on a European scale is the Unified Web Evaluation Methodology (UWEM) that has been developed within the Web Accessibility Benchmarking Cluster (WAB cluster).

Funka has for many years developed its own methodology for reviewing and testing websites. This has been done in a close collaboration with the disability movement and the W3C.