Date: 22 Jun 2001
From: Heimo Claasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Browsers
There has been a detailed article now about "art. 508" - identified as
part of the ADA operationalisation - in, of all (hehe) a German 'puter
mag.(*) It gives indication of the validity for "newly to be acquired"
hard- and software "by government authorities and public financed"
institutions, as well as for the www page layouts of these for their
public sites.
And in its core says, "Art. 508 thus is highly compliant with the
proposals of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) of the World Wide
Web Consortium (W3C)".
The mag. article quotes a speaker of a German association of the
blind: "Such a regulation evidently is the one means that has effect",
as the W3C standards for HTML have no binding nature and have been so
much undercut by proprietary gadgets. The US gvt. measure is hailed as
"exemplary" by a large number of German associations of people with
disabilities.
The magazine compares art.508 with the introduction, years ago, of the
"energy (saving) star" which, in the first instance, was applicable to
public prucurement only but in the longer term had considerable impact
on sensibility for, and providing for, energy saving 'puter devices
and design.
The magazine - quite high-brow, high-tech oriented - considers the US
measure positive too for www page development in general, as an
indirect consequenc of it is better structuring and easier access
overall, and inducing a more rational and better navigable www page
presenttion.
// Heimo Claasen // <hammer at revobild dot net> // Brussels 2001-06-22
The WebPlace of ReRead - and much to read ==> http://www.revobild.net
(*) C'T 13/2001, p.53 - Hannover: ISSN0724-8679
(There is a Dutch edition of this mag. too; quite some of their site
material is in English ==> www.heise.de/ct/ )
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