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Re: regulations on accessibility to government web sites around the world, what exists and what criteria is used to measure it

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Mar 31, 2011 8:15AM

Birkir,
I feel strongly that we have worked very hard in accessibility to develop robust and testable standards, and the goal is now to harmonize the policy implementations so that we don't have different standards in different locales. As such, WCAG 2.0 should be the basis of any new standard. This is what is being implemented in many countries and is being discussed for Mandate 376, which is the European Union's effort to define accessibility standards for the EU. If the Icelandic application to join the EU is successfully concluded in 2012, then it would be covered by the M-376 rules.

Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick
Group Product Manager, Accessibility
Adobe Systems

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