Elizabeth, sorry to be a pedant on a Monday morning (erk!) - HREOC is now AHRC - the URL is the same though.
Cheers, Andrew 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] > ******************************************************************* > -- --- Andrew Boyd http://onblogging.com.au ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
