Those are all well and good, but utterly useless in a global marketplace. Should I be under your countries guidelines? Mine? What if I'm international? All of them? What if country As guidelines are incompatible with country Bs... Or should legislation hinge on guidelines proposed, created, and managed by a non government body (WSG)?
You are all so quick to support legislation, but do you have any concept of how that would change the web, a concept not just of the accesability impact but the real impact? On 10/3/07, russ - maxdesign <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Which idea of accessability should be imposed? Yours? Mine? > > There are clearly defined "ideas" of accessibility for most countries - > such > as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0: > http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/ > > Or Section 508 in the case of America: > http://www.section508.gov/ > > In Australia, for example, web accessibility hinges on the Disability Act > of > 1992 > http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/dda1992264/ > > And is backed up by HEREOC's "World Wide Web Access: Disability > Discrimination Act Advisory Notes": > http://www.hreoc.gov.au/disability_rights/standards/www_3/www_3.html#s3_3 > > "In June 2000, the Online Council, representing the Commonwealth and all > State and Territory governments, agreed that the Worldwide Web > Consortium's > Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 will be the common best practice > standard for all Australian government websites." > > All this will change soon when WCAG2 hits the stands :) > > Thanks > Russ > > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
