In the USA, federal government web sites, and those web sites were federal tax dollars are involved, are subject to accessibility requirements of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended. This is more commonly known as Section 508 ---> http://www.section508.gov/ Many state governments and public educational institutions have incorporated the federal Section 508 requirements within their state laws for state supported sites.
There is no direct requirement for non-federal government commercial and private web sites to follow Section 508. However, the recent target.com court case out of California used that state's laws and the federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA - http://www.eeoc.gov/policy/ada.html) as the basis for an accessibility lawsuit later settled out of court. I cannot help you with state- or local-level web accessibility laws. Dennis Luc <l...@dzinelabs.com> Sent by: li...@webstandardsgroup.org 08/26/2009 11:45 AM Please respond to wsg@webstandardsgroup.org To wsg@webstandardsgroup.org cc Subject [WSG] accessibility: government Good afternoon list, Does anybody know if their exists a list of what is required in terms of accessibility features for each country (governments)? -- Regards, Luc _________________________ http://www.dzinelabs.com Using the best e-mail client: The Bat! version 4.2.6 with Windows XP (build 2600), version 5.1 Service Pack 3 and using the best browser: Opera. "Xerox never comes up with anything original." ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
