May 10, 2003
Via Bob Regan's Macromedia accessibility weblog, a list of (US) state accessibility laws and policies.
Minnesota's done some good work with laws, but our web accessibility guidelines are pathetic. A group of state agency webmasters spent a few months reviewing and editing standards and had a decent document, but for reasons that I still don't understand the version that was forwarded for approval was a watered-down, error-riddled, piss-poor excuse for a set of guidelines. It was as if someone whined, "hey, this is too hard," and ripped out everything that was good, correct, and meaningful.
Not that I feel strongly about it or anything.
And really, reading through it again, it's not a completely useless document. But I strongly believe that it needs to be reviewed and updated.
I'm quite impressed by Illinois's standards and, now that I have a list to work with, plan too spend some time looking at other states' standards and guidelines. I'm curious how many have created their own rather than just adopt Section 508 or the W3C's guidelines.
