Jul26Disability Discrimination and what it means to you

• By Carl Crawley in Legal,
• tagged Compliancy, DDA and Standards

Disability Discrimination and what it means to you

There is widespread speculation about the legislation introduced under the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA), which tries to ensure that websites are accessible to disabled users. As an act itself and with little or no solid information on the Internet about it – web site owners find it difficult to understand how the legislation applies to them and their site.

The Royal National Institute for the Blind and the Disability Rights Commission are two of biggest advocates of the Disability Discrimination Act, although they have no specific rules governing what websites specifically need to do in order to meet the legal requirements, they have however, in conjunction with the W3C published guidelines on ‘A’, ‘AA’, and ‘AAA’ conformance levels.

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