Hello all,
There is an increasing number of good examples of web-accessibility for the
visually impaired, including the COMPASS site, for example. This just in -
an example of how accessibility for all is increasingly expected to be a
standard component of websites.
Alice
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>OLYMPICS WEB SITE - LANDMARK CASE
>
>On 28 August 2000 the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity
>Commission (HREOC) found the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic
>Games (SOCOG) guilty of unlawful discrimination against Mr Bruce Maguire
>(who is blind) by failing to make the Olympics website accessible.
>
>RNIB was pleased to provide a statement of support which Mr Maguire felt
>was a factor in convincing the Commissioner that the Olympics website is
>important to blind people around the world.
>
>The decision may be read online at
>http://www.humanrights.gov.au/disability_rights/Maguire_v_SOCOG2.html [1]
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>4. DETERMINATION
>
>Accordingly, the complaint is substantiated and it is proper for the
>Commission to make the following determination pursuant to s.103(1) of the
>DDA:
>
>1. A declaration that the respondent has engaged in conduct
>that is unlawful under section 24 of the DDA in that it has provided for
>the use of the complainant a web site which because of his blindness is to
>a significant extent inaccessible.
>
>2. A declaration that the respondent do all that is necessary
>to render its web site accessible to the complainant by 15 September 2000
>by:
>
>(i) including ALT text on all images and image map links on
>its web site;
>
>(ii) providing access to the Index of Sports from the Schedule
>page; and
>
>(iii) providing access to the Results Tables to be used on the
>web site during the Sydney Olympic Games.
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