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Re: Web accessibility standards in Europe, Asia and Africa

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Feb 11, 2012 4:24PM

Also keep in mind the Mandate 376 (European Economic Area equivalent
of Section 508) work that is going on, and it is hoped that a draft
will be officially ready for voting in 2014 (though with recent
history of European accessibility initiatives it might be more like
2034).
Most standards seem to be baesd on WCAG 2.0 AA with variations, if
standards are not based on that, it seems most countries are moving
towards that standard.
Norway has an impressive set or accessibility regulations that will
take effect in July 2013 requiring compliance of providers of public
online services.
I am putting together a document containing all information I am aware
of, admittedly in large part taken from the website pointed out above.
I'd happily postit if I find it contains a lot of additional
information and someone is interested in it.
I expect to be done in a few days.


On 2/11/12, Bevi Chagnon < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Accessibility is voluntary and adopted individually by each country, not
> region. The term is called "international harmonization" where we're trying
> to get everyone to adopt the same standards.
>
> You'll find individual countries' standards here at the W3C/WAI's website:
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/Policy/
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> -----Original Message-----
> I'm trying to determine what web accessibility standards are followed by the
> following regions:
>
> Asia
> Europe
> Africa
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
>
> Best regards,
> Dave Fleming
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