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Wellington is New Zealand's government and technology capital, and public-sector procurement here imposes explicit web standards that private-sector work rarely encounters.
Any business selling to or partnering with New Zealand government agencies needs to meet the Web Accessibility Standard and Web Usability Standard, which are mandatory for public service agencies and effectively become supplier requirements through the procurement chain. These reference WCAG conformance explicitly, and a site that fails review can stall or disqualify a bid. There is a second Wellington-specific expectation that overseas agencies routinely miss entirely: appropriate and correct use of te reo Māori, including macrons rendered properly rather than stripped by a font or encoding failure. Getting this wrong is noticed immediately and reads as carelessness at best. Wellington's technology sector also skews toward government-adjacent work, which brings security posture and data sovereignty expectations well above the commercial norm.
Where we usually start with a Wellington client: Accessibility and public-sector readiness. That is not a fixed rule — if an audit shows the constraint sits somewhere else, we will say so rather than sell you the service we opened with.
Specific answers to what businesses in this market actually run into.
Accessibility and usability standards are mandatory for public service agencies and flow through the procurement chain to suppliers. We build to them.
Macrons rendered properly, terminology used appropriately. Encoding failures and careless usage are noticed immediately in this market.
Government-adjacent work carries hosting and data residency expectations well above commercial norms. We scope them upfront.
Built to standard rather than remediated after a failed accessibility review.
Business districts and areas we work across in and around Wellington:
The Web Accessibility Standard and Web Usability Standard are mandatory for public service agencies and effectively become supplier requirements through procurement. They reference WCAG conformance explicitly and a failed review can disqualify a bid.
Yes, with correct macron rendering and appropriate terminology. Encoding failures that strip macrons are common in overseas-built sites and are noticed immediately here.
Frequently yes — data sovereignty and residency expectations in this sector sit well above commercial norms. We scope those constraints before proposing an architecture rather than after.
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