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From: Geof Collis
Date: Apr 1, 2010 2:48PM

Hi Christophe

Appreciate the info. :O)

I sent off my letter to the Minister yesterday, I
only wanted references that would claim Level AA
so I left out any that only referred to Level A.

cheers and thanks

Geof






At 03:07 PM 4/1/2010, you wrote:
>Hi Geof,
>
>At 19:34 30/03/2010, Geof Collis wrote:
>>Hi Christophe and All
>>
>>Followed that link and I've pasted below
>>Countries that have some mention of Guidelines,
>>not sure how current some of them are though.
>
>If you are interested in disability legislation
>in general, there is another resource that I
>discovered just today: the section "law and
>policy" on the website of the Academic Network
>of European Accessibility Experts (ANED):
><http://www.disability-europe.net/en/themes/Law and policy>.
>
>
>
>
>>Austria
>>
>>In conformity with the e-Europe Initiative,
>>Austria has committed itself to adjusting all
>>public web services according to the WAI level A.
>>
>>http://www.eaccessibility-progress.eu/country-profiles/austria/websites/
>
>This is probably already out of date.
>See
><http://www.austria.gv.at/site/5744/default.aspx>;.
>However, this page does not clearly state to
>which standard Austrian e-government websites should conform now.
>
>
>
>>Belgium
>>
>>AnySurfer (formerly BlindSurfer) is a collective
>>organization of Belgian’s largest organizations
>>for the blind and visually impaired. AnySurfer is mainly
>>known for granting quality labels (guidelines are
>>based on WCAG1). Both the Flemish and the Walloon
>>Government have formally accepted the revised AnySurfer
>>guidelines (released in July 2006) as the only
>>set of guidelines for testing public websites.
>>
>>http://www.eaccessibility-progress.eu/country-profiles/belgium/websites/
>
>OK, but Belgium has no law on web accessibility.
>Neither do the communities or the regions (and
>God knows at which level one should campaign for
>such legislation
><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communities,_regions_and_language_areas_of_Belgium#Competences>).
>
>
>
>>(...)
>>
>>France
>>
>>The Law for Equal Rights and Opportunities,
>>Participation and Citizenship of People with
>>Disabilities (Law n° 2005-102 of 11 February 2005), Article 47,
>>makes accessibility of all public online services
>>mandatory. Public digital communication services
>>(public websites in particular, but also phone and TV
>>services) must be accessible to people with
>>disabilities according to international
>>standards. The law does not specify further the services that are concerned,
>>nor does it refer to specific standards.
>>
>>There is no direct legal or regulatory obligation
>>for the accessibility of private websites.
>>
>>http://www.eaccessibility-progress.eu/country-profiles/france/websites/
>
>Update: the decree from 14 May 2009
><http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=LEGITEXT000020626623&;dateTexte=20091028>
>requires that websites by puclic authorities
>should conform within two years (starting from
>the date of publication of the decree, if I understand this correctly).
>This decree puts into practice article 47 from
>an earlier law (from 11 February 2005):
><http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000000809647&;dateTexte=>
>
>RGAA provides guidelines for public
>administrations: <http://references.modernisation.gouv.fr/rgaa-accessibilite>;.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Christophe
>
>
>>(...)
>>
>>Taken from http://www.eaccessibility-progress.eu/country-profiles/
>
>
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