Re: Dutch ministerial decision on accessibility of government websites

On 3/7/07, Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be> wrote:

> I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned in this list: on 1 September
> 2006, the Dutch minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations
> published a "ministerial decision" on the quality of the national
> government's websites.
> A few hightlights:
>
> 7.3: don't use d-links.
> 8.21: serve files with the appropriate MIME type.
> [People have argued that this rules out XHTML 1.0 because it's MIME
> type is not supported by a dominant browser.]

Neither is the longdesc attribute, which is the proposed alternative
to using d-links.

--Chris