German Policies Relating to Web Accessibility

Shawn,
the German accessibility initiative 'Einfach für Alle' has some 
additional info on the legislation in this country, both on the national 
and on the state level:

In addition to the PDF-Version you list at 
http://www.w3.org/WAI/Policy/#DE we have a (slightly more accessible :-) 
version of the federal BITV regulation at:

http://www.einfach-fuer-alle.de/artikel/bitv/
(the regulation itself)
http://www.einfachfueralle.de/artikel/bitv/bitv_anlage.html
(appendix 1, list of checkpoints, grouped into 2 priorities derived from 
WCAG1)
http://www.einfachfueralle.de/artikel/bitv/bitv_glossar.html
(appendix 2, glossary)
http://www.einfachfueralle.de/artikel/bitv/landesgleichstellungsgesetze.html
(overview of the current legislation process in the individual states - 
only 6 out of 16 states have a discrimination law.)

Btw, the sponsoring departments for this law and regulation were the 
German Department of the Interior (Bundesministerium des Innern) and the 
Labour Department (Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Sozialordnung).

I talked to Wendy and Gregg at theVenice f2f about providing an english 
translation of the federal regulation to W3C. I had a conversation today 
with a contact at the labour department and they promised to do one 
sometime next week, so I'll send it as soon as I have it.

HTH

/Tomas Caspers

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Received on Friday, 4 July 2003 09:00:00 UTC