[Sigia-l] Web Accessibility on Government Websites outside US

[W words]

Another aspect of accessibility is of course the issue of metatagging as a
retrieval tool.

Australian (national level) govt websites also have an archiving policy:
http://www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/er/web_records/intro.html
Of course there i an archiving policy for all records. I'm juyst pointing
out the website policy

Irene Wong



----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew McNaughton <andrew at scoop.co.nz>
To: W words <wongword at ozemail.com.au>
Cc: Ronald Tan <ronald at interaction.com.sg>; <sigia-l at asis.org>
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Web Accessibility on Government Websites outside US


>
> There's also questions of future accessibility to government documents
> which should be considered.  There's a very interesting letter from a
> government minister in peru to microsoft which addresses this issue.  This
> should be required reading for anyone working on government documents
> anywhere.
>
> http://www.gnu.org.pe/resmseng.html
>
> Andrew McNaughton
>
>
> On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, W words wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 11:41:55 +1000
> > From: W words <wongword at ozemail.com.au>
> > To: Ronald Tan <ronald at interaction.com.sg>, sigia-l at asis.org
> > Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Web Accessibility on Government Websites outside
US
> >
> > Ronald
> >
> > 1 Accessibility is also bandwidth, software age and pc capabalities:
perhaps
> > not a problem for a tiny rich place like Singapore. Not all people run a
> > laptop
> > with a mouse so there's one "accessibility" issue. And what about
> > accessibility with pda?
> >
> > 3  Australia. If you go to
> > http://www.govonline.gov.au/projects/standards/accessibility.htm
> >
> > For all standards of Aust govt sites (that is federal/commonwealth level
> > sites) go to http://www.govonline.gov.au/ and look at the topics under
the
> > Standards heading
> >
> > Regards
> > Irene Wong
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Ronald Tan <ronald at interaction.com.sg>
> > To: <sigia-l at asis.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 5:28 PM
> > Subject: [Sigia-l] Web Accessibility on Government Websites outside US
> >
> >
> > > Hi Everyone!
> > >
> > > I am currently working on the need for Government websites in
Singapore to
> > > factor in Web Accessibility. Would appreciate any info on the
following:
> > >
> > > 1.    Is there a need to justify the necessity since the disabled
> > community
> > > is
> > >        relatively small?
> > >
> > > 2.    Is there another means of implemeting Web Accessible websites
> > without
> > >        developing a speperate version from the graphic savvy versions?
> > >
> > > 3.    Who are the other countries who mandates government websites to
be
> > >        Web Accessible?
> > >
> > > 4.    To what extent is possibly implemented?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > Ronald
> > >
> > >
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