AUSTRALIA: THE BENCHMARK, NOT A DEADLINE
Australia sets no accessibility deadline. It sets a benchmark.
There is no dated compliance obligation to plan for. What there is: the Disability Discrimination Act 1992, and the guidelines the Australian Human Rights Commission conciliates against, which name WCAG 2.2 Level AA as the minimum.
Last updated: 24 September 2026
The 2 April 2025 guidelines
The Australian Human Rights Commission announced its Guidelines on equal access to digital goods and services on 2 April 2025, replacing the WWW Access: Disability Discrimination Act Advisory Notes v4.0 of October 2010.
Not binding law
The guidelines are guidance, not legislation. They do not create an obligation by themselves. What they are is the benchmark the Commission conciliates against when a complaint is made under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992, which is the law that does bind.
WCAG 2.2 Level AA is the stated minimum
The guidelines name WCAG 2.2 Level AA as the minimum. That is a recommendation in the guidelines, not a statutory standard.
What they say the DDA reaches
The guidelines state that DDA obligations reach SaaS platforms, mobile apps, AI tools, and IoT devices, not only websites. That is the Commission's reading of the Act, offered as guidance; how a court would read it in a given case is a separate question.
No date, and no countdown
Australia publishes no compliance deadline for digital accessibility, and nothing on this page counts down to one. The DDA has been in force since 1992; the guidelines describe what good looks like under it now.
The AHRC and the state and territory commissions are listed in our accessibility enforcement directory. The wider Australian picture, including the federal Digital Service Standard, is in the compliance guide.
The gap this leaves an Australian SMB
Enterprise accessibility platforms in this category start at roughly $25,000 to $150,000 or more per year, which is why organisations below that size are unserved rather than badly served. Pallas is priced at US$149 a month. Prices are listed in US dollars. If you are paying from outside the United States, Stripe Checkout may show and charge an equivalent amount in your local currency at its own conversion rate.
What Pallas does against that benchmark
Pallas is an accessibility remediation platform for organisations that enterprise vendors have priced out.
Find
Scans web pages and PDF, DOCX, and PPTX documents against WCAG 2.2 criteria, the standard the guidelines name. Automated scanning covers the criteria that can be machine-tested; a manual review checklist covers the rest, because most of WCAG cannot be verified by software. Pallas scans server-rendered pages; support for JavaScript-rendered applications is on the roadmap.
Fix
Routes every finding through a workflow: status, owner, comments, evidence attachment, retest, and an exceptions register.
Prove
Keeps a tamper-evident audit log (SHA-256) of what you scanned, what you found, and what you fixed, and generates a VPAT 2.5 / ACR from the platform. If a complaint reaches conciliation, that record is what you show.
Procurement documents
The VPAT, DPA, DPIA, security whitepaper, and the rest of the documents a procurement review asks for are published on the Procurement page. Pallas aligns applicable Essential Eight controls to the Maturity Level 2 baseline; a formal IRAP assessment is not held.
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