Thinking Accessible » legislation http://thinkingaccessible.com Making accessiblity accessible to you. Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:12:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 No Canadian Section 508 http://thinkingaccessible.com/no-canadian-section-508/ http://thinkingaccessible.com/no-canadian-section-508/#comments Mon, 25 May 2009 12:31:37 +0000 Rocío http://thinkingaccessible.com/?p=76 Ok so Canada does not have the national equivalent to the United States section 508. But if you want to know what they recommend you can read their Common Look and Feel standards for the Internet documentation. Obviously the information is for government and public sector websites, but it could be useful to get another perspective on standards and accessibility. It basically lists out the main things we need to remember for guidelines and best practices.

]]> http://thinkingaccessible.com/no-canadian-section-508/feed/ 0 Web Accessibility in Canada http://thinkingaccessible.com/web-accessibility-in-canada/ http://thinkingaccessible.com/web-accessibility-in-canada/#comments Sun, 17 May 2009 15:49:45 +0000 Rocío http://thinkingaccessible.com/?p=56 As far as I know, web accessibility in Canada is up to each province to legislate.  There are several attempt to make websites accessible in government and educational institutions. Most if not all government websites in Canada are now accessible. But unfortunately, there are no laws to ensure that accessibility guidelines are respected.

A special notice should be given to W3Québec. An organization dedicated to promote web accessibility across Québec. Another organization is Accéssibilité Web that have done substantial studies on the matter and have translated WCAG 2.0 in French.

Unlike the US, the Canadian government has yet to make an official law like Section 508. There’s still a ways to get people on board.

If you want to read more on this, check out: http://www.webaccessibility.biz/canada.htm

]]> http://thinkingaccessible.com/web-accessibility-in-canada/feed/ 0