RE: [WSG] Accessibility standards - for commercial consumption

[Gian Sampson-Wild]

HREOC's big stick is to taking the offending company/government department to court.  How do you think a case would go with HREOC saying the offending web site is inaccessible because it did not validate it's documents as required by the HREOC guidelines and the web site is inaccessible. And the defendant saying it complied with the accepted international standard, the WCAG 2.0 by ensuring that all it's documents could be parsed unambiguously. No judge is going to be able to understand the issues and with a good lawyer arguing accepted international standard vs HREOC guidelines, HREOC will be left paying hefty court costs.   --- HREOC is the governing body in this instance and has successfully fought and won an accessibility case in Australia.  When I talk to clients they ask why they have to worry about accessibility and I refer directly to the DDA.  In Australia, what the DDA recommends is what is legally required. I think you do not give either judges or lawyers enough credit for being able to differentiate between overseas law and Australian law. Gian