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From: Helen A
Date: Thu, Sep 28 2006 6:10AM
Subject: UK accessibility standards
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Can anyone advise my friend?

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Subject: Disability Standards and computer systems


Helen we have a few options on our main system. Can you give me
some links to Disability Access standards so we can see which we
should adopt.

Thanks


Simon
Simon Karner
Senior Information and IT Co-ordinator
Housing and Social Work Services
Falkirk Council
Denny Town House, 23 Glasgow Road, Denny, FK6 5DL

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From: Gareth Dart
Date: Thu, Sep 28 2006 6:30AM
Subject: RE: UK accessibility standards
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@Helen,

There is a very good article on the Disability Discrimination Act and web accesibility here: http://www.webcredible.co.uk/user-friendly-resources/web-accessibility/uk-website-legal-requirements.shtml. In the absence of any detailed requirements in the legislation, or any UK test cases, this article suggests that (unsurprisingly) the W3C guidelines should be used as a basis for accessibility considerations. I note your friend's gov.uk domain - isn't there a policy for government websites to follow?

Where I work we're overhauling our site for a go-live in December. We've adopted a policy of adhering to the W3C's Priority 1 guidelines, no arguments, and working toward implementing all of the Priority 2 guidelines unless there is a very compelling reason not to. So far, even with the use of a CMS, we haven't hit any serious impediments to Priorities 1 and 2.

Gareth

From: ben morrison
Date: Thu, Sep 28 2006 7:00AM
Subject: Re: UK accessibility standards
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On 9/28/06, Helen A < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> Can anyone advise my friend?
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> From: "Simon Karner" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >

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> Helen we have a few options on our main system. Can you give me
> some links to Disability Access standards so we can see which we
> should adopt.

Maybe the pas 78 guidelines will be of use:

http://www.bsi-global.com/ICT/PAS78/index.xalter

"It is applicable to all public and private organizations that wish to
observe good practice under the existing voluntary guidelines and the
relevant legislation on this subject and is intended for use by those
responsible for commissioning public-facing websites and web-based
services."

ben

From: Swan, Henny
Date: Fri, Sep 29 2006 2:20AM
Subject: RE: UK accessibility standards
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The PAS is definitely a very good place to start (and a free copy can be
downloaded here
http://www.drc-gb.org/library/website_accessibility_guidance/pas_78.aspx
). It gives good guidance on planning and implementing accessibility in
websites.

I noticed that your friend is based in local Government so they may want
to look at the UK Government Guidelines as well
http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/e-government/resources/handbook/html/2-4
.asp

We also publish our RNIB See it Right Accessible Website Guidelines in
the Web Access Centre a http://www.rnib.org.uk/wac in the downloads
page.

Henny

From: Emma Duke-Williams
Date: Fri, Sep 29 2006 3:50AM
Subject: Re: UK accessibility standards
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On 9/28/06, ben morrison < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:

> Maybe the pas 78 guidelines will be of use:
>
One of the things that I like about PAs 78 is that it gives
information about all disabilities - and explicitly says that user
testing is vital. I think that we're still quite a long way off being
able to use automated testing for things like ease of understanding of
language (which, for local Government sites is often very much
overlooked from what I have seen; though I guess in part that can
arise from the language they use on paper!)

Emma
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