If you're doing business in a country (as in your company has offices and/or
stores in that country), that country's legislation applies.
P
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris
Wilson
Sent: 03 October 2007 23:58
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard
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
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