AT of WCAG1.0 in Dutch

Dear all,

It is a pleasure for us to report W3C that Accessibility.nl foundation (Netherlands) is willing to produce an authorized translation in Dutch of the Web Content Accessiblility Guidelines 1.0  (WCAG 1.0). Accessibility.nl has volunteered to act as leading translation organization.  

Stakeholders:

Stichting Bartiméus Accessibility (acting as LTO)
Utrechtseweg 84 
3702AD Zeist
Netherlands
http://www.accessibility.nl/ 
Reason: Promoting Web accessibility for disabled people. Strengthening the Dutch WCAG to a tool for enforcing / encouraging accessibility of (semi-) government sites

W3C Benelux Office
Kruislaan 413
1098 SJ Amsterdam
Netherlands
http://www.w3c-benelux.org/ 
Reason: Regional W3C office. Guarding the authorization process

NEN	
http://www.nen.nl 
P.O. Box 5059
2600 GB Delft
Reason: Dutch National Normalization Institute. Facilitating the transformation of the AT to a Dutch national standard.

All of them have agreed to participate

Candidate authorized translation
Since 2000, a Dutch translation of the WCAG 1.0 exists. This informal translation (which is already widely being used in several (semi-)government documents) will be submitted as a Candidate authorized translation to several interested organizations within Flanders and the Netherlands for review.

Kindest regards,

Eric Velleman




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Eric Velleman
Directeur
Bartimeus Accessibility Foundation
NL Center of Expertise for accessibility of ICT
Utrechtseweg 84, 
3702 AD Zeist (The Netherlands); 
Tel: +31 (0)30 - 6982401; Fax: +31 (0)30 - 6982388
www.accessibility.nl / www.wabcluster.org
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Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect"
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Received on Thursday, 8 June 2006 09:17:02 UTC