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At the European and national level, pressure has been made to invite public administrations to make their Web sites accessible to all citizens. This paper reports on the work of the BrailleNet Association together with Web designers of the French government to improve the accessibility of public Web sites. It explains the political context, actions that have been undertaken and the results of these actions. Finally, the perspectives for the future will be discussed.
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The full text of the resolution of the Council of the European Union can be found in PDF format at: http://ue.eu.int/newsroom/makeFrame.asp?MAX=1&BID=87&DID=70046&LANG=1&File=/pressData/en/trans/70046.pdf&Picture=0
WAI’s Web Content Accessibility guidelines WCAG 1.0, from may 1999: http://www.w3.org/tr/wcag
Bobby worldwide is an automatic evaluation tool developed by CAST: http://www.cast.org/bobby
W3C’s html validator: http://validator.w3.org
A-Prompt: http://www.aprompt.ca
BrailleNet’s report (October 2001) can be found in French at: http://www.fonction-publique.gouv.fr/tic/ evaluation2001-accessibilite.htm
Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT-TECHS/
BrailleNet Guide, published by the DIRE (Direction Interministérielle à la réforme de l’Etat) in February 2002: http://www.fonction-publique.gouv.fr/communications/guides/ guide_index.htm#dire
WAI-DA: http://www.w3.org/waida
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Duchateau, S., Boulay, D., Tchang-Ayo, C., Burger, D. (2002). A Strategy to Achieve the Accessibility of Public Web Sites. In: Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2398. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45491-8_11
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