- From: Harry Woodrow <harrry@email.com>
- Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 22:52:58 +0800
- To: <rowan@absolutely.co.nz>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Well 508 as far i can see is the legislation in the US which requires people dealing with the federal US gove to have accessible sites and software. It spells out what they have to do as a set of regulations many of which are based on WAI standards but they have made a few not so useful changes. In New Zealand I think you are a bit like Australia and have seperate disability legislation which enables people to complain about being discriminated against if they cannot access goods or services and this should cover Web sites. The draft NZ govvt guidlenes are here http://www.e-government.govt.nz/guidelines/web-guidelines/web-guidelines-v1- viewable/guidelinesintro.html Harry Woodrow - >> When I know how to build accessible sites, I have the democratic duty to build them, no matter what it costs. Ineke I couldn't agree more. Cost-benefit is a red herring. It doesn't take all that much thought to make a site accessible and the web community should be setting the standards rather than treating it as another market. Wouldn't it make more sense to build it into everything we do rather than treating it as an "add-on"? Could someone please explain to us non-US types what 508 implies? TIA. Rowan _______________________________________________________ absolutely.co.nz limited http://www.absolutely.co.nz Tel (04)939-0399 : Cell 025-244-3300 : Fax (04)971-6289 Postal : P. O. Box 14-360, Wellington, New Zealand
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