- From: Ineke van der Maat <inekemaa@xs4all.nl>
- Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 11:45:58 +0100
- To: "Roberto Scano \(IWA/HWG\)" <rscano@iwa-italy.org>, <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Hello Robert > You are asking to give no access to multimedia at level 1? I see a right > for people with disability. Have we >thinked that this could be a discrimination? You are right, of course this is true. In the Netherlands e. g. a very strong anti-discrimination law is existing. That means that special anti-discrimination offices are existing in many cities to make it easy to complain when it is necessary. The netherlands doesnot have a special law for accessible websites for that reason and and also the law "Disclosure of official documents" garantuees access to nearly all public documents. But I saw that now Dutch ministeries have accessible and valid websites as promoted in the guidelines for accessible public websites http://webrichtlijnen.overheid.nl/ Also reasons for accessible and va lid websites have been given: - better communication between websites - easier to maintain and less costs for it - using valid code means also that is easy to teach to other web developers accessibility and validity because the specification are well documented in the w3c-website. Because the Dutch parliament is urging only to use open source software, also in the guidelines can be found that every still existing propprietary software, plug-in, etc must have an alternate open-sourse. Even is stated that for that reason plug-ins must be avoided as much as possible, so no dependency to any seller of proprietary software is existing. The in the guidelines mentioned wesite of the ministery of VWS (National health, Welfare and sport) http://www.minvws.nl/ has valid code (xhtml 1.0 strict) and is WCAG-A conform. it is failing AAA because links have the same texts and AAA because of empty fields in forms. Besides it is now easier to promote valid pages at level 1, because there is also a log-validator. In http://www.w3.org/QA/ can be read: Log Validator 1.0 09 September 2005: Release of the W3C Log Validator version 1.0. The Log Validator makes it easy to manage the quality of even large Web Sites,step by step, by finding the most popular documents failing Markup or CSS validation, or withbroken links. Read the announcement for details. (News Archive) I thought that W3C wants to promote its webstandards more often than before. At least i read that on the mailinglist of the w3c-evangelists (QA-ig-list): public-evangelist@w3.org So i can not understand this discussion of a w3-working group. This page might be also important: http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/09/Step-by-step making your website valid, a step by step guide. Greetings Ineke van der Maat
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