- From: Carlos A Velasco <velasco@fit.fraunhofer.de>
- Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 09:32:12 +0200
- To: Cynthia Waddell <Cynthia.Waddell@icdri.org>
- Cc: "'WAI IG List'" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Hi Cynthia, As already accurately pointed out by Judy, I was replying to a concrete query from Steve Vosloo on the German situation. There are many countries in the world with a federal structure, not only the USA have a federal government and states <grin /> regards, carlos Cynthia Waddell wrote: > The response by Carlos was not complete and could be misinterpreted. > Section 508 has an indirect impact on websites other than Federal agencies > in the US. For a complete discussion of this impact on entities doing > business in the US, including how Section 508 informs US entities covered > under the Americans with Disabilities Act and other disability rights laws > on how to ensure effective communication through the accessible design of > web sites, please see my law and policy chapters in the recently released > book "Constructing Accessible Web Sites." One interesting response to the > Section 508 effort is that a number of States have adopted Section 508 in > policy or legislation because they want their websites to be accessible to > the widest possible constituency. > -- 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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