- From: Roberto Scano - IWA/HWG <rscano@iwa-italy.org>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 08:59:37 +0200
- To: "Montgomery, Gordon" <Gordon.Montgomery@Staples.com>, "'Matt May'" <mcmay@w3.org>
- Cc: <gv@trace.wisc.edu>, "'Carlos A Velasco'" <Carlos.Velasco@fit.fraunhofer.de>, "'Wendy A Chisholm'" <wendy@w3.org>, <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Yes, there are directives but these directives must be applied to all the member states. Also in Europe there is an European Parlament that make laws that are obligation for all the member states. We need to move around and promote the armonization of the guidelines receipt in all the Europe: there are private projects like www.euroaccessibility.org that point to this. We are also working for it as IWA/HWG for the promotion of the right application of the web standards and we are testing this policy in Italy where for the first time in Europe we have created a law project that request the receipt of the full WAI project (as you know, make only accessible web sites and not involve the people with disability in the web developing with ATAG products make only half of the support for people with disability) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Montgomery, Gordon" <Gordon.Montgomery@Staples.com> To: "'Matt May'" <mcmay@w3.org>; "Roberto Scano - IWA/HWG" <rscano@iwa-italy.org> Cc: <gv@trace.wisc.edu>; "'Carlos A Velasco'" <Carlos.Velasco@fit.fraunhofer.de>; "'Wendy A Chisholm'" <wendy@w3.org>; <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 12:33 AM Subject: RE: Please review: Updated draft of conformance section for next draft That's how Europe is used to operating. There are European directives from the Parliament that are left to each country's lawmakers to implement as they see fit in line with their own very specific local context. Hence the UK's DDA: http://elj.warwick.ac.uk/jilt/01-2/sloan.html It's not a United States of Europe :-) Gordon. -----Original Message----- From: Matt May [mailto:mcmay@w3.org] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 6:23 PM To: Roberto Scano - IWA/HWG Cc: gv@trace.wisc.edu; 'Carlos A Velasco'; 'Wendy A Chisholm'; w3c-wai-gl@w3.org Subject: Re: Please review: Updated draft of conformance section for next draft On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at 12:06 AM, Roberto Scano - IWA/HWG wrote: > I agree with Gregg. > The problem now in Europe is that in some countries (like Italy) some > part > of the government wanna create normative "section 508-like" and not > the full > receipt of the WCAG. Then _they_ should specify a conformance profile, and they should specify _which_ checkpoints over and above Core. No self-respecting organization is going to issue a content requirement that allows people to select items "a la carte" to implement. If they're going to make laws out of WCAG, they should select and require items in the extended set when they do it. Core will be the most important set. From there, I think the focus should be on telling potential adopters (governmental and institutional) to start with nothing less than Core, and add requirements from there. Core+ does not help. As far as 508 goes, I think we'd do well to create a Core+508 profile as an informative example. We could show that adopting our requirements and processes will allow authors and ER tools to state authoritatively, "this is 508", while still adopting the principles of good design that WCAG contains (and 508 leaves out). - m
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