- From: Helle Bjarnø <hbj@visinfo.dk>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 12:19:11 +0200
- To: "W3c-Wai-Eo" <w3c-wai-eo@w3.org>
Now I've collected some of the links to Danish governmental publications, recommendations etc. I've given You the link to the English version when available. For the last two publications I've made a short comment in English, as there are no English summaries available. Action for Change IT Policy Plan 97/98 http://www.fsk.dk/fsk/publ/1997/action97/ Summary: Have we secured the rights of the individual in the information society? Are employees acquiring the necessary skills quickly enough? What does it take to open the public sector and revitalize the interaction of citizens and government? Does our society possess the necessary security solutions? The IT Policy Action Plan '97/'98 outlines the initiatives the administration wants to focus on in central concerns. The action plan follows up the Research Minister's review, "Authorities Heading for a Fall," published in the spring of 1997. Freedom to Choose Action Plan for IT Use by People with Disabilities http://www.fsk.dk/fsk/publ/1997/freedom/ Summary: The Danish info-society must be open to everyone - including people with disabilities. "Freedom to Choose - Action Plan for IT use by People with Disabilities" follows up the Government's IT Policy Action Plan 1995. This action plan emphasizes the need for a purposeful effort to make the info-society accessible to people with disabilities. Information technology can be a powerful aid to the increased integration on people with disabilities into society. It is all a matter of choosing technologies which can be used by the greatest number and which do not exclude the disabled user. Netpublikationer Statens standard for elektronisk publicering http://www.fsk.dk/fsk/publ/online-pub/ Summary in English The Danish Government will as of 1997 be releasing their publications on the Internet in parallel with the printed versions. The Internet publications will in technical terms be broadly accessible and searchable, along with being uniform and future-proofed. The Danish Ministry of Research and Information Technology has thus worked out this standard for their formatting. The standard contains a series of technical requirements and recommendations, and it takes into account those particular needs which the visually-impaired have with respect to electronic documents. The standard also contains advice and guidelines on how to organize the work process. Technically, the standard is based on the official HTML 3.2 specifications. This publication is not available in English. This publication is under revision and the new edition will be published in August (hopefully) Rapport fra Arbejdsgruppen om tilgængelighed og grafiske brugergrænseflader 12. februar 1998 Center for Tilgængelighed http://www.fsk.dk/fsk/div/270298-2/ No English summary available. Report from a Working group on accessibility and graphical user interfaces under the Ministry of Research and Information Technology. Published by the Centre for Accessibility. February 12, 1998. Offentlige hjemmesiders tilgængelighed. En undersøgelse af 144 offentlige hjemmesiders tilgængelighed for handicappede. Udarbejdet af Center for Ligebehandling af handicappede. December 1998. http://www.clh.dk/rapport/hjemmesider/ No English summary available. "The Accessibility of governmental homepages" By the Equal Opportunities Centre for Disabled Persons. December 1998. The report presents the results of a test of 144 governmental (state and local government) websites for accessibility. The tests were made with Bobby during the summer of 1998. None of the sites past the test. A few sites got more than 90 pct. of the underlying html pages approved. The responses to the report were very positive and many site owners have promised to make improvements during the last year. The Centre has planned a new round of Bobby tests by the end of this year to see if the accessibility has improved on the old sites and if new sites are accessible. Kind regards Helle Bjarno Videncenter for Synshandicap / Visual Impairment Information Centre Rymarksvej 1, DK-2900 Hellerup, Denmark tlf: +45 39 40 31 00 fax: +45 39 61 94 14 e-mail: hbj@visinfo.dk URL: www.visinfo.dk
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