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From: ckrugman
Date: Jan 20, 2010 4:27PM

do you have something in Canada that is equivalent to Section 508 which
addresses the accessibility of government web sites?
Chuck
----- Original Message -----
From: "Geof Collis" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] PDF Accessibility


> Hi All
>
> As an example of how much our Province even cares about pdf
> accessibility go
> to http://www.tcu.gov.on.ca/eng/eopg/tools/aoda.html and find the
> pdf document on Built Environment, it is worse than the one I went to
> yesterday and doesn't even perform the same way. The file was posted
> on November of last year, is part of the AODA legislation that this
> Government enacted.
>
> They have been made aware of this by one of our most vocal Advocacy
> groups the AODA Alliance and still they keep posting inaccessible
> pdf's with no alternate.
>
> So if anyone wants to educate them then please go ahead and let me
> know how it goes. :O)
>
> cheers
>
> Geof
>