UK Web sites face new accessibility rules
News Until now there has been ambiguity over the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, because the wording of the Act does not specifically mention Web services. A Code of Practice addressing discrimination against people with disabilities in the UK has...
[February 27, 2002, 17:22]
Call for law to improve websites for disabled
News Struan Robertson, a senior associate at Pinsent Masons solicitors, told ZDNet UK on Friday that e-accessibility in the UK is already a legal obligation under the Disability Discrimination Act. Reding said in a speech on Thursday that a potential...
[October 2, 2009, 17:24]
Disability legislation puts onus on IT managers
News It was created under the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) 2005, which was first passed in 1995, but revised a decade later. Public sector IT managers will need to be more active about tackling inclusion issues under new legislation due to come...
[October 31, 2006, 12:54]
Take a longer look at accessibility
Leader Under the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act, all UK organisations are required to take "reasonable steps" to ensure their online services are accessible to people with disabilities. Accessibility is about what vendors call assistive technologies...
[August 23, 2004, 11:45]
MPs call for better access to Web sites
News In 1995, Parliament passed the Disability Discrimination Act, a law to enforce the rights and prevent discrimination against disabled people. MPs are looking to recommend the use of text-to-speech in a bid to improve public sector websites.
[November 18, 2004, 12:25]
Sorry but you have made some very serious errors
Talkback Compliance with the Disability Discrimination Act is a statutory requirement; i.e.the law. but you failed to act on it. . And I can't quite make our what you are saying through the snowstorm you just raised there.
[November 18, 2007, 15:24]
Support standards, not multiple browsers
Leader The bigger issue is that a site that does not work with minority browsers is a site that is almost certainly not written to standards, and a site not written to standards is not only likely to have accessibility issues, but is also likely to fall...
[August 26, 2005, 13:50]
Lawyer warns that PDFs fail on accessibility
News Struan Robertson, a senior associate at Pinsent Masons and the editor of IT law website Out-law.com, said that the accessibility of the PDF (portable document format) was often forgotten, even by those companies that are striving to comply with...
[May 1, 2007, 16:29]
Disabled jobseeker initiative gets European recognition
News Workplace access requirements for disabled people under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 are compulsory from October 2004. Together with Workability - a scheme which provides computers and training for disabled people - jobability forms part...
[November 21, 2002, 14:40]
Odeon reels out accessibility excuses
News The Odeon cinema chain has been accused of breaching the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) despite making improvements to its online film information and booking site. Odeon was initially involved in a row earlier this year with a freelance web...
[September 23, 2004, 13:00]
Disabled jobseekers snubbed by employers
News Almost a third of employers say they do not have the facilities to employ disabled people, even though the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 states they must remove or alter any physical barriers in the workplace.
[March 15, 2002, 10:23]
Most UK Web sites break accessibility laws
News Under the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act, UK organisations are required to take 'reasonable steps' to ensure online services are accessible to people with disabilities. Most UK businesses are failing to meet the government legislation designed...
[March 23, 2004, 12:25]
When is a mouse not a mouse?
News Under the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act, UK organisations are required to take 'reasonable steps' to ensure online services are accessible to people with disabilities. The Royal National Institute for the Deaf (RNID) is trying to address the...
[May 26, 2004, 16:55]
