- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 07:12:20 -0500 (EST)
- To: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
The UK's legislation is a bit differnt (until about a year ago it didn't apply to Universities, whereas they are among those with the biggest obligations in Australia), but yes, it is overall similar. And that includes the fact that enforcement and compliance is not universal (although that applies to every law I know of). But the laws in all countries can be used, and from time to time they are. Combined with education this leads in general to sensible laws being more often complied to, and bad laws being repealed, changed, or officially ignored. In general. On average. And the education component is important. cheers Charles On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, David Woolley wrote: > BTW this does not just apply to Australia. Both Canada and the US also have > legislation in place which applies to private providers. If any one is The UK has legislation in place that makes it illegal to jam open fire doors. It's not enforced. I've seen stairwell doors jammed open even in libraries. The UK has legislation that probably parallels the Australian disability legislation.... -- Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles phone: +61 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI fax: +1 617 258 5999 Location: 21 Mitchell street FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia (or W3C INRIA, Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France)
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