Proposed accessibility legislation in Ontario

Dear madam/sir,

 

The Ontario provincial government is proposing legislation about accessibility on the web, amongst other media.  Information is here: http://www.mcss.gov.on.ca/mcss/english/pillars/accessibilityOntario/accesson/business/information/.  This is still in the committee stage, and I cannot tell how long the process will take to turn this into legislation and then have it passed in the provincial parliament.  Likewise, I don't know if you would post information that is at this stage, although I think it would be useful to do so.

 

While I'm at it, there are problems with French characters on this page: http://www.w3.org/WAI/Policy/CA-Provinces.html.  One should us utf for the language encoding to capture all French characters, although the ones that aren't displaying correctly are included in ISO-8859-1.  The correct characters, using html entities, are:

 

*   Handicapées

*   Ministère

 

Kind regards,

 

Ed Brandon

Webmaster

Canadian Public Health Association

Association canadienne de santé publique

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