Dear Melsiss and Kepler,
I note your Aussie email address Melissa, you could help me harrass the
Australian Government Information Management Office. UK standards are
higher than Australian or USA sites. UK government pages have fewer
HTML errors and more accessibility features. The Royal National
Institute of the Blind, RNIB in the UK are advocates for legal
compliance with UK Discrimination Laws.
In Australia, Vision Australia does not have the same focus of advocacy
as RNIB, they are a commercial company and do not advocate legal
compliance. Make a complaint under the 1992 Discrimination Act and see
how far you get. I did make complaint to Human Resources and Equal
Opportunity HREOC under the 1992 Act that I was denied keyboard access
by the Centrelink site.
I got nowhere and HREOC were lied to by AGIMO that their site was
"close enough". In Australia the precedent case is Maguire v Sydney
Olympics, a clear win for Maguire, however there has been no follow up
cases or complaints since as far as I know.
The apathy and denial of the Australian government to W3C standards and
accessibility can be seen in the awards to government website as
excellent, when the have many HTML errors and are inaccessible.
http://www.hereticpress.com/Editorials/Editorial06.html#awards
Long live the proletariat. If Target are found liable for
discrimination it will be a great thing for many Americans who will get
easier access to services they have been denied.
Tim
On 10/09/2006, at 1:18 PM, Melissa Cooper wrote:
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