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

[Andrew McNaughton]

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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