- From: <l.picci@governo.it>
- Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 08:28:06 +0200
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Dear All, a few weeks ago the Italian Government has approved a directive on Web content accessibility (and on usability and organizational Web related matters) of public sector sites. It is a compromise, as most governmental documents are. It affirms: "With a view to attaining a higher level of accessibility, all those in a condition to apply the WCAG 1.0 guideline of the World Web Consortium (W3C) in all its details, as also the verification procedures suggested therein, are hereby invited to complete the design or restructuring of a site accordingly." It also specifies ten "accessibility rules", that closely replicate the W3C "ten tips", and that were added in part because it is not easy, in a very official document, to reference another document written in a foreign language. The fact that a compromise was needed, I think, could provoke some thoughts on how to promote adoption of WCAG 1.0 (2.0, etc.) within complex governamental organizations, and on whether focusing on a narrowly defined concept of adoption is the best strategy to promote Web content accessibility in general. However, while these issues are relevant and may constitue matter for discussion in Honk Kong next month, I'm writing for more mundane reasons. The main site of the Italian governement, http://www.governo.it is currently undergoing restructuring to make it more accessible, as both WCAG 1.0 and, now, an Italian directive require. We would be very grateful to whoever sends comments and criticisms on the work in progress. One issue that the people working on the project are trying to fix is fairly funny: when the site is seen using Explorer, page printing does not work properly. Anyone has a clue on how to fix it? The site (not all parts are complete) is accessible as follows: http://194.242.231.57 username: wai password: demo (Please note that this site *is not* the official site of the Italian Government, and that it is made public to the readership of this mailing list only for the purposes declared in this message). Thank you for any comments that you may provide. They would be put to good use: this is the main public sector Web site in Italy, and it would lead the way to many others. best regards, Lucio Picci Lucio Picci W3C Advisory Committee Representative: Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri, Italy http://www.governo.it/sito_internet/w3c.html
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