On Oct 25, 2008, at 11:35 PM, Elizabeth Spiegel 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.
I am very curious how is it possible to enforce this law. I don't
really know about this so I am just making assumption that assistive
software have not been caught up with the latest W3C recommendation,
and the fact the W3C calls it a 'recommendation' instead of
'regulation/rule'. How the law draws the line?
tee
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