Website Compliance with the UK's DDA - Free Seminar
| lloydi wrote: |
| ...but ask our Italian friends about this. They have a minister who has decided to junk existing guidelines and come up with a whole new set. |
Aaargh... do let us know if you find out more about this, lloydi. I hadn't come across any reference to this until now. Rather alarming if true!
Don't know how many of you have come across references to the EuroAccessibility Consortium? Working very much to the WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, the consortium has been set up to try, amongst other things, to ensure consistency in how web accessibility standards are applied and how websites are assessed across the whole of Europe.
For details, see the consortium website at http://www.euroaccessibility.org.
Current UK members of the consortium: RNIB, RNID, AbilityNet UK and Accessinmind Ltd.
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| Don't know how many of you have come across references to the EuroAccessibility Consortium? Working very much to the WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines |
Will that also include feeding back to the W3C improvements or suggestions to their guidelines? Considering the WCAG 2.0 is currently a working draft, and improvements and suggestions put forward that benefits people in Europe is "a good thing"TM.
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| lloydi wrote: |
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UPDTE: I believe this is the man: http://www.mininnovazione.it/eng/ministro/ministro_eng.shtm |
ah...the gentle irony: the page gives a custom 404 page with a "go back" link relying on javascript. this doesn't bode well...
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| Mike@TheWhippinpost wrote: | ||
Well what's the point then, I mean really? This is a concern that was expressed in this thread and as I intimated there, it just makes me want to forget about the whole thing until such year a dominant worldwide standard emerges. I won't take such action yet of course but if this fragmentation continues then it just dilutes all our efforts to almost meaningless time-wasting. |
UPDATE: I received this message from Giorgio Brajnik of UsableNet in Italy,:
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| Ian,
the text of the law proposed by the minister Stanca is at http://www.innovazione.gov.it/ita/news/2003/cartellastampa/documentazione_ddlstanca.shtml (in rtf, sigh). I'm not well informed on whether something has changed since the beginning of July (when we met). Certainly Roberto Scano is more informed than me. I would agree with you, on how clever are our politicians in fuzzyfying these issues. However there is something good there as well: at least people talk about accessibility. |
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having had a look around the minister's site, I finally stumbled across the page containing all the accessibility guidelines here http://www.innovazione.gov.it/ita/intervento/normativa/normativa_accessibilita.shtml
having only skimmed over the page (which, interestingly enough, i can't seem to find in the english version of the site), i see WAI mentioned quite a lot (even with a link to the WAI itself). am i missing something ? where are the divergent guidelines we're talking about here ?
Patrick H. Lauke / webmaster / University of Salford
co-lead: WaSP Accesibility Task Force
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Hello,
Am I correct in assuming that the 1-800 number is toll-free to people in the UK who dial it?...or is it only toll-free to people in the US?
Regards
Simon
There are 10 types of people in this world, those that understand binary and those that dont.
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According to Watchfire, it is a toll free number from the UK. Interestingly I sent an email to them querying whether it was possible to have online audio streaming instead of using a phone (as I don't have international capability on my work phone) and they didn't seem to think so.
The Watchfire Marketing Manager tells me:
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| Unfortunately calling in through the phone line
is the only way to receive the audio portion of the live seminar. .... However, we will be recording this seminar (with the audio portion), and will be emailing everyone registered, the link. You will then be able to review the recorded version, with audio. |
So I'm hoping that the seminar will still make some sense live without the audio but only time will tell.
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off topic: welcome aboard daisychain...aeh...akads :pPatrick H. Lauke / webmaster / University of Salford
co-lead: WaSP Accesibility Task Force
take it to the streets ... WaSP Street Team
personal: splintered | photographia | redux
co-author: Web Accessibility - Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance
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Offtopic: I'm trying to wean myself away from my poor original choice of username! 
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