The Stanca Act is an Italian law of 2004 that promotes accessibility of information technology. The law also applies to Italian government websites.

History

The name of this law refers to its proponent,

Lucio Stanca Lucio Stanca (born 20 October 1941, in Lucera) is an Italian politician. He was Minister for Innovation and Technologies in the second and third Berlusconi cabinet, and later CEO of the Expo 2015 SpA. Career Lucio Stanca was Executive Cha ...

, Minister of Innovations during the second cabinet of Berlusconi. The law was unanimously approved by

Parliament In modern politics, and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: Representation (politics), representing the Election#Suffrage, electorate, making laws, and overseeing ...

, was published in the Italian

Gazzetta Ufficiale The ''Gazzetta Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana'' (Italian, ) is the official journal of record of the Italian government. It is published by the Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato in Rome. Function The ''Gazzetta Ufficiale'' promulgate ...

of 17 January 2004, and became operational after more than a year. On 16 September 2013 an update of this law was published in the Gazzetta Ufficiale. The update aligns the law with

W3C The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web. Founded in 1994 and led by Tim Berners-Lee, the consortium is made up of member organizations that maintain full-time staff working to ...

WCAG The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are part of a series of web accessibility guidelines published by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the main international standards organization for th ...

2.0 standards.

External links

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(Italy). Law of Italy Accessible information Web accessibility {{Italy-law-stub