Olympic Web site faces accessibility court case
Howard Lake | 2 November 2000 | News
The Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG) is facing a damages claim for publishing a Web site that was not accessible to people with visual impairments. They and site technology partner IBM are accused of breaching section 24 of the country’s disability act.
The Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG) is facing a damages claim for publishing a Web site that was not accessible to people with visual impairments. They and site technology partner IBM are accused of breaching section 24 of the country’s disability act.
UK Fundraising readers will know that the UK also has a disability discrimination act, and that it explicitly covers access to Web sites.
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Find out more about the court case against SOCOG in Battle to be equal by Caroline White at The Guardian. Read UK Fundraising’s coverage of Web site accessibility issues.
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