There's also a guide for Australian Government agencies here: http://webpublishing.agimo.gov.au/
As a couple of people have said... at the end of the day it's just different flavours of W3C -----Original Message----- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Sue Choong Sent: Thursday, 27 August 2009 9:29 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] accessibility: government Very useful links thanks Andrew On 27/08/2009, at 7:27 AM, Andrew Boyd <faci...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 4:40 AM, Luc<l...@dzinelabs.com> wrote: >> Good afternoon list, >> >> Does anybody know if their exists a list of what is required in >> terms of accessibility >> features for each country (governments)? >> >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Luc > > Hi Luc, > > here in Australia we have a couple of pieces of legislation, the main > one being the Disability Discrimination Act - there is a guide to it > at http://hreoc.gov.au/disability_rights/dda_guide/dda_guide.htm > There are some Better Practice Guidelines that touch on a lot of > accessibility issues (amongst others) at > http://www.finance.gov.au/e-government/better-practice-and-collaboration/better-practice-checklists/index.html > > Others may wish to add to the list above. > > Best regards, Andrew > > -- > --- > Andrew Boyd > http://uxaustralia.com.au -- UX Australia Conference Canberra 2009 > http://uxbookclub.org -- connect, read, discuss > http://resilientnationaustralia.org Resilient Nation Australia > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******************************************************************* > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ******************************************************************* *********************************************************************** WARNING: The information contained in this email may be confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, any use or copying of any part of this information is unauthorised. If you have received this email in error, we apologise for any inconvenience and request that you notify the sender immediately and delete all copies of this email, together with any attachments. *********************************************************************** ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
