- From: Francisco Godinho <f.godinho@mail.telepac.pt>
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 00:31:06 +0100
- To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>, "Robert Neff" <rcn@fenix2.dol-esa.gov>, "Javier Romañach" <jromanac@dial.eunet.es>
- Cc: "Francisco Godinho (Eng.)" <f.godinho@mail.telepac.pt>
Dear Robert Neff In Portugal, we still in "Stone Age" concerning accessibility. Only in the last year, Portuguese Govern made legislation about Rules of accessibility to Public buildings. Nevertheless, these year, Portuguese Govern are preparing an initiative called "The Citizens with Special Needs in the Information Society", with the goal of promoting the accessibility to the Information and telecommunication technologies and services. I don't believe that legislation about Internet will be a milestone, because there is a weak social pressure concerning this issue. How many Portuguese Subscribers has WAI ? Nevertheless, I already made several suggestion to the commission (Mission for the Information Society) that is preparing this initiative, concerning Web, software and telecommunications accessibility issues and the importance of introduce Universal Design education, in the curricula of computer science, electronic and telecommunication engineering courses. I am waiting feedback. Concerning disabilities laws, I am compiling a Portuguese Directory of Disability related web sities called "The Lighthouse of Disability, Handicap and Equal Opportunities" http://www.terravista.pt/meco/1728. You can translate to Portuguese with Altavista service http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate The information are organized in Lighthouses, to allow easily to access groups of contents: Lighthouse of the Computers, Lighthouse of the Communication, Lighthouse of the Economy, Lighthouse of the Design and the Accessibility, Lighthouse of the School, Lighthouse of the Lusofonia, Lighthouse of the Law, etc. The URL of the Lighthouse of the Law is http://www.terravista.pt/meco/1728/flei.html Concerning Information Technology, Assistive Technology, European and US databases, Web accessibility, software accessibility, Telecommunication and kiosks, Information Society, I am compiling resources in the site called "The Bug of Accessibility" http://www.terravista.pt/meco/1734/bug.html. In this site you can find more than 250 english links. There are special sections for Trace Center, Microsoft and IBM. Best regards Francisco Godinho Personal Homepage: http://www.terravista.pt/meco/1734 Portugal -----Original Message----- From: Javier Romañach <jromanac@dial.eunet.es> To: Robert Neff <rcn@fenix2.dol-esa.gov>; 'w3c-wai-ig@w3.org' <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> Date: Quarta-feira, 12 de Agosto de 1998 13:01 Subject: Re: other country laws Hello all, In Spain we don't have anything like that so far, but we have a comission who's supposed to start working soon. Regards, Javier Javier Romañach COCEMFE, Comisión I+D Madrid, Spain jromanac@dial.eunet.es ---------- > From: Robert Neff <rcn@fenix2.dol-esa.gov> > To: 'w3c-wai-ig@w3.org' > Subject: FW: other country laws > Date: lunes 10 de agosto de 1998 14:43 > > Once more i am compiling a list of the disability laws in other countries and also which ones apply to the web. Here in the US we have the: > American Disability Act, > Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act > Section 255 of the Telecommunications Act > > Looking for comparable data for other countries. > > Appreciate your time! thanks! >
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