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From: Christophe Strobbe
Date: Mar 30, 2010 11:24AM


Hi Geof,

At 17:53 30/03/2010, Geof Collis wrote:
>Hi Christophe
>
>I found the article and it should have rung a bell with you although
>I did get the Country wrong. :O)
>
>http://www.epractice.eu/en/blog/308297

I also forgot to mention a thread on the WAI-IG list from April last
year, where I mentioned other sources of information:
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2009AprJun/0026.html>;.

Best regards,

Christophe


>cheers
>
>Geof
>
>
>At 11:40 AM 3/30/2010, you wrote:
>
> >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It looks outdated.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
> >
> >
> >--
> >Christophe Strobbe


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