Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
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From: Scott Hollier ... 31 March 2010 08:15
Do you work for or with government?
Yes, I teach accessible web design to about 100 ANU students each
year, many then work for the government: <http://www.tomw.net.au/2009/wd/>.
This is after giving evidence to the Human Rights Commission in the
SOCOG web accessibility case: <http://www.tomw.net.au/2000/bat.html>.
Did you know that the Federal government recently announced that all
their websites will have to meet the W3C Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines by 2012 (for level A)?
No, as it says in the Minister's announcement, WCAG 1.0 has been a
mandated requirement for agencies since 2000. The new requirement is for
WCAG 2.0 by 2015:
<http://www.financeminister.gov.au/media/2010/mr_052010_joint.html>.
The guidelines did not specify a level, so I suggested AGIMO do that,
which they did (I think it was around mid 2007).
We're putting a free resource kit together to help implement these
guidelines, and keen to find out how we can help and who needs to
receive it. ...
More tools would be useful for teaching accessible design. I use the TAW
tool which is good, but it tends to revert to its native Spanish:
<http://www.tawdis.net/index.html?lang=es>.
... resource kit ...
Yes, please.
ps: I assume your kit will be available free, like TAW, thus
putting the back on topic for the Slug list. ;-)
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