- From: Graham Oliver <graham_oliver@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 22:51:02 +0100 (BST)
- To: Barry McMullin <mcmullin@eeng.dcu.ie>
- Cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Hey Barry No worries, to quote someone famous 'There's no such thing as bad publicity' :-) All I can say is that I have set up a company here in New Zealand whose purpose is to 'make on-line information accessible' One of our challenges is to find a way of getting to work with the NZ Government to ensure that they 'walk their accessibility talk'. We have created a submission to the draft document you reference and the 'final version' is due out in June. Hopefully, (I will forward a copy of this response to the author of the document) when the final version goes up on the web it will correspond to its own recommendations!! Cheers Graham Oliver --- Barry McMullin <mcmullin@eeng.dcu.ie> wrote: > > This is a cheap shot, but I can't resist [grin]. In > looking at > the background to the NZ e-government strategy, I > looked at their > "e-government web guidelines". This includes a > section on > standards conformance, including HTML - which is all > very > laudable. Inter alia it requires the inclusion of a > DOCTYPE > declaration in every HTML page ... but does the page > making this > stipulation have a DOCTYPE declaration? Yup, you > guessed ... (in > fact, the W3 validator returns a long list of > violations in > addition to the lack of DOCTYPE). > > If you want to savour the irony youself, I give the > URL below; > but for those of you listening rather than reading, > be warned > that this is a rather long and horrible URL... > > Cheers, > > - Barry. > > The "DOCTYPE" URL: > > http://www.e-government.govt.nz/guidelines/web-guidelines/e-government-web-guidelines-consultation-draft-html/e-government-web-guidelines-consultation-draftp23.htm > > ===== <Start Signature> 'Making on-line information accessible' Email: graham_oliver@yahoo.com Phone: 64-9-360-1261 <End Signature> ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie
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