Isn't it a delicious irony that the Office of the e-Envoy | | Guidelines for UK Government websites version 2 is not available in HTML!?:

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Guidelines for UK Government websites version 2

The following documents are available:

Framework for senior managers - a summary of main points of the Guidelines and changes from the first version

Word version: (207 KB) | plain text version (54.9KB) | PDF for Acrobat 3 Readers: (341KB) | PDF for Acrobat 5 Readers (404KB)

Update: Curiously, version 1 of the guidelines is available in HTML, but not version 2. Duh!