- From: Charles Reitzel <creitzel@rcn.com>
- Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 11:50:55 -0500 (EST)
- To: Jason Thomas <jason@topic.com.au>
- Cc: Terry Teague <terry_teague@users.sourceforge.net>, tidy-develop@lists.sourceforge.net, html-tidy@w3.org, chris.ridpath@utoronto.ca, mikes.lam@utoronto.ca
You raise a basic question: are the W3C guidelines sufficiently general to apply to non-U.S. And, vice versa, are the W3C guidelines specific enough so that compliance with W3C accessibility guidelines is sufficient for U.S. federal guidelines? I took a quick look at the w3c link below and didn't see any mention of the issue. wondering out loud, Charlie At 08:44 AM 11/5/2001 +1100, Jason Thomas wrote: >They have the same sort of thing here in Australia as well. > >On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 01:36:16PM -0800, Terry Teague wrote: > > In case you aren't familiar with accessibility checking, US law (the > > Rehabilition Act) now requires that Federal agencies electronic and > > information technology is accessible to people with disabilities. This > > requirement is known as Section 508. For more info, visit : > > <http://www.section508.gov>. Also the W3C has made recommendations in the > > form of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines - see > > <http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/>.
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