PAS 78: Availability
Hi everyone
An update on the availability of PAS 78.
PAS 78: Guide to Good Practice in Commissioning Accesible Websites
Price £30
P&P UK £4.17 (inclusive of VAT); International £5.83 (+ VAT if applicable)
Order online at http://www.bsi-global.com/ICT/PAS78/
By phone on +44 (0)20 8996 9001
Email orders@bsi-global.com
Formats available:
large print, easy to read, Word, audio, braille, DAISY, Welsh, accessible PDF
NOTE
- DAISY is an audio format (see www.daisy.org). Only request this is you have a DAISY player!
- BSI are working right now on making the accessible PDF version available for immediate download from their website. We hope this will be ready either today or early next week. In the meantime you can still order the electronic formats for delivery via email.
Julie, RNIB
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Update!
PAS 78 is now available for immediate download in accessible PDF format from the BSI website.
http://www.bsi-global.com/ICT/PAS78/
This in itself is breakthrough - immediate download in accessible PDF. If BSI can do it the rest of the world surely has no excuse.
Julie, RNIB
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also worth mentioning here (rather than the other PAS threads, where the information may easily be missed):
if you're working at a university or other educational institution, you should be able to access a copy of the PAS via your athens account
Patrick H. Lauke / webmaster / University of Salford
co-lead: WaSP Accesibility Task Force
take it to the streets ... WaSP Street Team
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co-author: Web Accessibility - Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance
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Still not convinced whether I need it but it's good to see BSI making this important publication more accessible. 
Will there be an accessible HTML version for people whose machines process HTML more efficiently than PDF/Word (can be a serious issue for mobile device users, or those who have to work on a variety of machines), or for people who don't have Adobe readily available to them, or who might benefit from user stylesheet control and other functions to improve readability, etc?
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Ben, it is a very long document - and each page is watermarked with the licenced user's details. I am not sure if HTML could give BSI that sort of security - though I would accept advice on that.
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| Cerbera wrote: |
| Will there be an accessible HTML version? |
I'm not aware of plans to publish in HTML.
However... hold that thought because there will be news in the next couple of weeks (I'd say more but it's not my news to share). Stay tuned.
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but do we get to guess?my mind is on a permanent tangent
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| JulieHowell wrote: |
| Price £30 |
+ VAT !!
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
Birmingham, England
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The PAS has an ISBN of 0 580 46567 5.
Wouldn't it therefore be up for request and viewing at public libraries?
www.brucelawson.co.uk
Web Evanglist, Opera, WaSP Accesibility Task Force
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International Lothario (retired)
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There is no VAT to pay if you order the printed version (but then you have to pay postage and VAT on the postage). Blame Customs for deciding that printed material is except from VAT but when printed material is supplied electronically it is a service, and therefore subject to the standard rate. But as others have said, PAS 78 is a guide to help commissioners of a website and if they aren't willing to spend £30 and a day to find out what they need it is unlikely they have a sensible vision and set of goals for their business website or be willing to pay a competant developer a reasonable sum to develop it for them.Accessibility != Bobby
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| vigo wrote: |
| as others have said, PAS 78 is a guide to help commissioners of a website and if they aren't willing to spend £30 and a day to find out what they need it is unlikely they have a sensible vision and set of goals for their business website or be willing to pay a competant developer a reasonable sum to develop it for them. |
And as others have pointed out, not everyone developing or commissioning a website is a business; and not everyone is paying for the website to be developed.
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
Birmingham, England
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| elfin wrote: |
| but do we get to guess? |
Oh yes! And can I pretend your excellent guesses were what I was thinking of in the first place and claim the credit?!
May I also draw attention to Bruce's excellent suggestion that those who are unable to pay for it themselves request PAS 78 at your local public library. Then lots of people can borrow it and read it for free (that's what public libraries are there for!!).
Note: there may be a charge for an inter-library loan. Or maybe the library will be persuaded to buy its own copy.
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well my guess is that they will be available in html format - though whether those will be publicly available or not is perhaps a different matter.
my mind is on a permanent tangent
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So does anyone have a copy they can send me?
Johan De Silva / Portfolio
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Isn't it on Kazaa? www.brucelawson.co.uk
Web Evanglist, Opera, WaSP Accesibility Task Force
Study the Web Standards Curriculum
International Lothario (retired)
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