Hi Elizabeth, Thanks for your clarification as that brings it back into perspective....I think I read too much into Andrews reply....;-)
I am all about equal opportunity and would not dream of intentionally excluding anyone especially when it is so easy to include as many as possible. Cheers, ben On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Elizabeth Spiegel < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ben > > > > In Australia, HREOC is responsible for administering various > anti-discrimination legislation, including the Disability Discrimination > Act. (It comes under the banner of 'equal opportunities' rather than 'human > rights'.) One form of discrimination is offering a service to one group and > refusing to offer it, or offering on less advantageous terms, to another > group. For website designers/builders, this means that if you sell stuff (or > even just offer free information) to the general public and present it in > such a way that people with a disability (e.g. blind people using screen > readers; people with movement disorders that make it difficult/impossible to > use a mouse) can't access it, you are breaking the law. > > > > *Elizabeth Spiegel* > > *Web editing* > > *0409 986 158* > > *GPO Box 729, Hobart TAS 7001* > > *www.spiegelweb.com.au* > > > > > > > > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On > Behalf Of *Benedict Wyss > *Sent:* Saturday, 25 October 2008 11:07 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [WSG] Re: Searching for standards information > > > > Hi Andrew, > > First off..good reply. > > I like the last paragraph re human rights. Even though I don't need to be > forced to be compliant to standards as I have a conscience but (and excuse > my ignorance) when has being able to access the internet a human right. I > thought it was the domain of things like security, sustenance and protection > from the elements. I am further thinking that in order to obtain justifiable > rights the movement inevitably swings heavily to the right/left in an > attempt to end up in the middle ground. > > I am interested in hearing peoples thoughts on this one. Is it a human > right or...? > > [disclosure: no offense intended] > > Cheers, > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 9:55 PM, Andrew Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ben, > > AGIMO publishes guidelines that cover some of what you asked for - it is up > to individual organisations as to which guidelines they follow and how far - > it shouldn't be that way but it is. Each organisation that I've worked in > over the last 25 years in Government has had their own writing standards - > and since there has been a web, their own web > content/usability/accessibility standards in one form or another. Most are > compliant in some way or another with WCAG 1.0 - but this is based on > interpretation, and these interpretations vary between organisations. > > Privacy is looked after by the Australian Privacy Commissioner ( > http://www.privacy.gov.au/). > > An study of the Australian Government web standards environment is not > complete without examining the role of the Australian Human Rights > Commission (http://www.hreoc.gov.au). One of the Commissioners, Graeme > Innes, has put the lot of us on notice - he will (to use his words) "name > and shame" organisations that have inaccessible sites. He has started this > already. > > Cheers, Andrew > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Benedict Wyss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > And then the clouds parted... > > http://webpublishing.agimo.gov.au/ > > If anyone wants to add then please do so but shall consider this closed. > > Cheers, > > > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Benedict Wyss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am looking for any and all links to comprehensive listings of: > > 1. Australian Government Industry Best Practices > 2. Australian Government Standards (Privacy, Accessibility and > Usability) > > I have been googling for a while and coming up with bunk. > > All assistance welcomed. > > Thanks, > > Ben > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* > > > > > -- > --- > 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] > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* > 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] *******************************************************************
