- From: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 13:52:07 +1100 (AEDT)
- To: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Apparently an effort was made during the early stages of the WAI to catalogue all of the anti-discrimination laws, in different countries, which might be interpreted as mandating web accessibility. I am not sure what the results of that survey were. Anti-discrimination is not an area of law which I have studied in any detail, but it is my general understanding that, since Australia's federal Disability Discrimination Act covers the provision of goods and services, it would prohibit discrimination against people with disabilities in relation to the service which is provided to the public by a web site. The details are discussed in a paper released by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, the URL for which I have forgotten. I have heard that there were plans afoot in the United Kingdom to enact comparable legislation.
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