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Summary

This page is part of the portal Ideos resources on digital accessibility . It lists 27 links to the rules, guidelines, standards and repositories of digital accessibility at the international level in different countries.

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Organizations

W3C

au maximum de son potentiel en développant des protocoles communs qui encouragent son évolution et assurent son interopérabilité. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing common protocols that promote its evolution and ensure its interoperability.

DAISY

The DAISY Consortium was formed in 1996 to conduct research on global standards for digital audio book to everyone and especially to people with disabilities access to reading all the books.

EDEAN

European Design for All e-Accessibility Network (EDEAN) is a network of 160 organizations in the Member States of the European Union. The network's aim is that all citizens have access to the Information Society.

IMS Global Learning Consortium

The IMS Global Learning Consortium creates standards for training solutions in line with the objective of quality, accessibility and use by all.

WAI

The department Web Accessibility Initiative was established in 1996 within the W3C. It establishes international guidelines for making websites accessible to all and especially to users with disabilities.

eInclusion Europa

The European Commission's objective is an Information Society for All. EInclusion Europa on its portal, it publishes all its activities in this regard.

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International recommendations

ATAG

International guidelines for accessibility of production tools and management of electronic content.

UAAG

International guidelines for accessibility tools for reading electronic content.

WCAG 1.0

The first version of the recommendations of international Web Content Accessibility (from December 2008, this version is not the official version).

WCAG 2.0 (English version)

The official international recommendations for Web Content Accessibility since December 2008.

WAI-ARIA

The document WAI-ARIA explains how to make Web content and Web applications more accessible to people with disabilities. It helps in particular to make accessible dynamic content and advanced user-side interfaces developed with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript and all related technologies. Currently, some features used in Web sites are not available for some users with disabilities, especially those using screen readers and people who can not use a mouse. WAI-ARIA provides answers to these new needs Accessibility, for example, by defining new methods of programming features to inform anytime assistive technologies of their role and status, and thus enable disabled people to interact with them via their assistive technology . With WAI-ARIA, developers can create Web applications accessible and usable for people with disabilities.

WCAG 2.0 (French version)

The French version approved by the W3C recommendations of international Web Content Accessibility since December 2008.

Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0

International recommendations for creating a website is also available on mobile phones.

Relationship Between MWBP and WCAG

The correlation between the recommendations for websites available on mobile phones (MWBP) and those for web accessibility (WCAG).

Comparison between WCAG 1.0 and Section 508 (U.S.)

The document Side by Side WCAG vs.. 508 shows a comparison between the checkpoints of the WCAG 1.0 priority 1 with those of Section 508.

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European Union

UWEM

Methodology for assessing the accessibility of a website funded by the European Commission within the framework of three European projects in a group called WAB Cluster (23 organizations participated in these three European projects whose initials are EIAO , Support EAM and BenToWeb ).

CEN Workshop Agreement No. 15554 [English version pdf (207.0 KB)]

At the request of the European Commission, the project Support EAM organized a CEN Workshop over a period of one year from April 14, 2005 to April 15, 2006. The objective of this CEN Workshop was to obtain a first level European consensus on a European scheme for the assessment of compliance with Web Accessibility and the award of a "quality mark" for accessibility the Web, according to the recommendations of the WAI WCAG. Participants in this CEN Workshop came from 16 countries and 39 organizations represented.

. A final agreement on the document with the European scheme was obtained in accordance with the procedure, the document called CEN Workshop Agreement No. 15554 is available on the CEN website. It presents the "Specifications for a Web Accessibility Conformity Assessment Scheme and a Web Accessibility Quality Mark" (Specifications for an evaluation plan for compliance with web accessibility and a quality brand of web accessibility). Three schemes are presented:

  • inspection by an independent third party (according to ISO / IEC 17050)

  • certification by an independent third party (according to ISO / IEC 17020),

  • and the statement of compliance by the owner of a website (according to EN 45011).

Web Accessibility and the Law in Europe

This article lists the main actions of the European Commission for web accessibility and provides links to online documents.

Mandate 376

376 The mandate issued by the European Union encourages the European standards bodies CEN , CENELEC and ETSI work on harmonization of requirements for Accessibility can be used in the procurement of ICT products and services.

The main objectives of this mandate are:

  • harmonize and facilitate the public procurement of accessible ICT products and services by identifying the rules and standards,

  • provide a mechanism by which the public procurers have access to an electronic toolkit allowing them to use the rules and standards identified.

[ list of reports of office 376 (English) ]

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Studies

Laws and Rules Web Accessibility in some European countries (Support EAM, April 11, 2005)

The document provides online public policy on web accessibility in some European countries. Links to national laws and rules are given.

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Canada

Standard of accessibility, interoperability and usability of websites

The site of the Canadian government lists the rules and requirements for web accessibility for all public sites in Canada.

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United States

Section 508

All technical requirements for accessibility of hardware, software and electronic services (including web sites) in the United States.

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France

RGAA

Document created by the DGME containing the technical rules of accessibility to be applied to electronic services in the public sector.

AccessiWeb 1.1 repository

Method of application of WCAG 1.0

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New Zealand

New Zealand Government Web Standards 2.0

The site of the Government of New Zealand presents the rules to be applied to public sector sites with WCAG 2.0 .

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United Kingdom

PAS 78: a new standard in Web accessibility

This page is a study of the standard of web accessibility in the UK published in 2006.

Guidelines for UK Government Websites

This page presents the rules specific to the UK to make accessible Web sites.

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