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New Zealand gives go-ahead for data-driven disability plan
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Improving the availability of quality information about those with a disability or impairment in NZ will lead to better decision-making by government agencies, say both the Statistics Minister Craig Foss, and the Disability Issues Minister Nicky Wagner.
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Public Sector web and mobile app accessibility to become law in Europe
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Claims EU, US accessibility rules are falling off the agenda
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In Europe, the European Blind Union (EBU) has issued a warning that the European Commission’s pledge — Directive 2004/18/EC — to make all public websites and websites providing basic services to citizens accessible by 2015 is slipping behind schedule.
The EBU claims that EU Ministers have not held any meaningful discussions on the directive since June 2013.
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ACCAN calls for new access legislation
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The new legislation would be based America’s 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA), which was passed in 2010. The most comprehensive access legislation in the world, it makes it mandatory for programs captioned for television broadcast to be captioned when distributed over the internet. Digital television receivers, smartphones, tablets and other devices must also be able to receive captions and play audio description.
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Australian policy and legislation
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) been instrumental in providing concrete standards to support government web accessibility. The W3C released the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), with the release of version 1.0 in 1999 and version 2.0 in 2008.
In February 2010, the Commonwealth Government committed to making all its websites compliant with WCAG 2.0 by 2015.
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