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Re: WCAG and various Laws

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From: Christophe Strobbe
Date: Mar 30, 2010 10:39AM

At 16:39 30/03/2010, Simius Puer wrote:
>Hi Geof
>
> >From experience you are right on the mark with WCAG 2.0 being the 'norm'
>(with WCAG 1.0 AA preceding that) for the more technically advanced
>countries to hang their legislation off of.
>
>Have you checked out http://www.w3.org/WAI/Policy/ ? This has great
>background on specific country legislation and the issuing body.

It looks outdated. For example, it still says that France has no
legislation on web accessibility.

(The bottom of the page says it has not been updated since 2006.)

Best regards,

Christophe


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