The United Kingdom consists of the countries England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. (Ireland is part of the European Union.)

• August 2024 article: European Accessibility Act (EAA): what does it mean for UK further and higher education?, by John Kelly of the Jisc consultancy.
• October 2024 article: European Accessibility Act + accessibility statements: An ASPIRE overview featuring tenuous Star Wars references, by Huw Alexander of the textBOX consultancy.
• Amendment to the Public Sector Accessibility Regulations is a helpful November 2023 article on the UK Public Sector Accessibility Regulations impacting websites and mobile applications. The article, written by Léonie Watson of the Tetralogical Accessibility consultancy, has links to laws and other resources.
• The Equality Act (2010) is a civil rights law protecting rights of disabled people in addition to others. The Act applies to the private sector. As with the Americans with Disabilities Act it currently has no definitive digital accessibility standards to measure potential online disability discrimination, though WCAG is widely regarded to be the de facto standard.
• The Equality Act (2010) applies to all UK countries except Northern Ireland. The terms of the Disability Discrimination Act (1995) (the predecessor to the Equality Act) still apply in Northern Ireland.
• The Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018
• Understanding Accessibility Requirements for Public Sector Bodies (2018, last updated 2022)
• Accessibility legislation: what you need to know from The Government Analysis Function, a network for UK civil servants.
• UK Government guidance on digital accessibility (with links to laws, policies, and other resources, with reference to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 AA.
• The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) has resources on its website to help enforce the UK public sector web accessibility requirements. See Challenge inaccessible websites with our new toolkit (2020) with information about requirements and how to report inaccessible public sector websites.
• The UK Equality and Human Rights Commission has a website titled How to report an inaccessible public sector website (applicable to England, Scotland, and Wales).
• For some history on implementing web accessibility requirements in the UK including lawsuits see an 2012 article titled RNIB and BMI-baby accessibility lawsuit: How BS8878 may help prevent you getting sued.
• In 2019, British Standard 8878 was replaced by ISO/IEC 30071.1 – Information technology — Development of user interface accessibility — Part 1: Code of practice for creating accessible ICT products and services.  Learn more about the standard in this article.
• For more about the history of BS8878, launched in 2010, see Launch of BS 8878 Web Accessibility and Web Accessibility Code of Practice BS8878.