Hi, Taco asked: Are there currently any laws in Australia that dictate a website should be accessible to vision impaired people etc.?
Answer: Yes - The legislation is the Disability Discrimination Act 1992. I wrote an overview of the (specifically) Australian situation a while back, with links that give you much more information: http://www.cogentis.com.au/website-accessibility-issues.html Hope it helps. Best regrds Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: Ted Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 15:16:57 -0700 Subject: RE: [WSG] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is an old article. The sydney games lawsuit was the shot that rang around the world. As far as I know, he won the suit and governments around the world have begun requiring compliance wtih disabilities acts. In the United States, it is section 508 of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Any company that does business with the government must have an accessible web site. England has just begun requiring accessible web sites. I spoke with a man from Italy that says they are also required to pass the minimum level of Bobby tests. The new Olympic web site for the games in Greece are supposed to be fully accessible. It's not difficult to program a site to be accessible, you just need to be aware of what is needed. A standards compliant web site is almost always an accessible web site. Just make sure you use your alt tags and title tags and you are 75% there. If you haven't downloaded and installed the web developers tool bar for mozilla, go to http://www.chrispederick.com/work/firefox/webdeveloper/ and get it. It will give you accessibility testing and lots more for free. Ted www.superiorpixels.com -----Original Message----- From: Taco Fleur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 2:51 PM To: Web Standards Group (E-mail) Subject: [WSG] Are there currently any laws in Australia that dictate a website should be accessible to vision impaired people etc.? If so, to what websites does it apply and has anyone taken any websites to court over not being accessible? What I could find so far only the following: - http://www.sportslawnews.com/archive/Articles%202000/SportsBriefs904.htm Are there any links to what standards certain websites need to apply? I believe this has been asked before however a quick scan though my mailbox did not return anything. Thanks Register now for the 3rd National Conference on Tourism Futures, being held in Townsville, North Queensland 4-6 August - www.tq.com.au/tfconf ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
