- From: Steve Vosloo <stevenvosloo@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 13:20:56 +0200
- To: "'WAI IG List'" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Hi Carlos Can you please tell me if Germany's requirement for level-AA compliance is for all govt sites, or also inclusive of public sites. Thanks Steve -----Original Message----- From: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Carlos A Velasco Sent: 12 August 2002 08:52 PM To: RUST Randal; WAI IG List Subject: Re: 508 vs. W3C Dear Randal, Emmanuelle, The actual text (and what should be referenced, I think) of the law is available (in German) at: <http://www.behindertenbeauftragter.de/download/gleichstellungsgesetz.ht m> (Federal Law on Equal Opportunities for People with Disabilities may be an approximate translation) Paragraph 11 deals with Barrier-free information technologies. Since August 1st, there is a decree for the implementation of the law (Barrierefreie Informationstechnik Verordnung - BITV) that basically translates in its Appendix WCAG 1.0 - level AA as its reference point. You can download the BITV text (as PDF, go figure!) here: <http://www.bmi.bund.de/Annex/de_22681/Barrierefreie_Informationstechnik -Verordnung_BITV_als_PDF-Download.pdf> regards, carlos RUST Randal wrote: >>Also, consider that the German administration has recently >>taken a further step and asked for double-A compliance as a minimum! > > > Simon, > > Can you provide a link to confirmation of this? Thanks. > > Randal -- Dr Carlos A Velasco mailto:velasco@fit.fraunhofer.de http://access.fit.fraunhofer.de/ Fraunhofer-Institut für Angewandte Informationstechnik (FIT.LIFE) [Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT.LIFE)] Barrierefreie Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie für Alle Schloss Birlinghoven, D53757 Sankt Augustin (Germany) Tel: +49-2241-142609/319272 Fax: +49-2241-1442609
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