Thats correct Andrew, I had to investigate this for a redesign of a federal government web site.
Government departments and agencies in Australia are at the mercy of the law, but as Andrew stated the level of compliance is measured against a persons assessment of the level of discrimination they feel is being placed on them. The examples that I know of have been assessed to the level where the person making the complaint is deemed being discriminated against. If this person in not satisfied with the solution made by the organisation they can continue to push the case forward till the issue is resolved and during this period the organisation is fined along the way. However for commercial organisations, if they are not providing a service where they are the sole provider and access point, the lines get fuzzy on what is and is not disciminatory. William > Andrew Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:18 AM, tee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks for the info, Elizabeth. > > > > Aussie members in this list must be very proud of this law :-) Let's > just > > hope no gold-digger lawyer sees an opportunity there! > > > > Is the requirement for this law higher per WCAG guidelines (A, AA, or > AAA)? > > For example, Section 508 is really low standard in my opinion. > > > > tee > > > > > Tee, > > the Disability Discrimination Act (here in Oz) does not actually specify > the > level of compliance according to WCAG. HREOC and AGIMO (google these) > make > some interpretations of the Act that are again interpreted by individual > government bodies - I think it is fair to say that accessibility > standards > in Australia aren't (standard). > > Cheers, Andrew > > -- > --- > Andrew Boyd > http://onblogging.com.au > > > ******************************************************************* > 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] *******************************************************************
