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Disability Discrimination Act

Australia’s federal law making it unlawful to discriminate because of disability when providing goods, services, or facilities.

Also called
DDA

The Disability Discrimination Act 1992 is Australia’s federal law against disability discrimination. Section 24 makes it unlawful for anyone providing goods, services, or facilities, for payment or not, to discriminate against a person because of disability, including in the terms or the manner in which the service is provided. A provider can argue that avoiding the discrimination would impose unjustifiable hardship, but the burden of proving it lies with the provider.

The Act names no technical standard. The Australian Human Rights Commission’s 2025 Guidelines on equal access to digital goods and services point to WCAG as the applicable international standard; the guidelines are not legally binding. Complaints go to the Commission first. The UK’s 1995 Act of the same name still applies in Northern Ireland. Our maintained summary is at Disability Discrimination Act.

Source

Disability Discrimination Act 1992

Federal Register of Legislation, Australian Government. Checked .

Equality Act 2010
The UK law that bars service providers from discriminating because of disability and requires reasonable adjustments.
WCAG
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, the international standard for accessible web content that most laws point at.

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