Petition for the Accessibility of the Portuguese Internet

Hello all

Yesterday (30 of June), the Portuguese Parliament approved
the Petition for the Accessibility of the Portuguese Internet
as recommendation to the Government.

Now, the Portuguese Government should adopt the necessary
measures to guarantee full accessibility of government and public
services web information.

The Web Accessibility Initiate was mentioned in the parliament report.

Next week we will prepare a press release and the English translation of
the Portuguese Parliament position concerning web accessibility.

We would like to thank you all for your wonderful work and
in particular to the following friends:

Cynthia D. Waddell,  ADA Coordinator City of San Jose, CA   - USA
David Bolnick,  Microsoft  - USA
Earl Jonhson,  SUN Microsystems  - USA
Emmanuelle Gutiérrez y Restrepo,   SIDAR  - Spain
Geoff Freed,   CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media  - USA
Neill McBride,   Dolphin Computer Access - UK
Javier Romañach,   COCEMFE  - Spain
Phill Jenkins,  IBM Special Needs  - USA

We will also keep you informed on upcoming accessibility
initiatives originated from Portugal.


Regards

Francisco Godinho and Ricardo Silva
Coordinators of the Petition for the Accessibility of the Portuguese
Internet.
GUIA/PASIG - Portuguese Accessibility Special Interest Group
http://www.acessibilidade.net/index_eng.html

Received on Thursday, 1 July 1999 14:15:23 UTC